Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. Gorgias
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. What is art?
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Never Give In!
Let an understanding man imagine human nature originally produced without the sense of sight, and consider what ignorance and trouble such a defect would bring upon him, what a darkness and blindness in the soul; he will then see by that of how great importance to the knowledge of truth would be the privation of such another sense, or of two or three, should we be so deprived. Essays
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