"One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it."

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Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich (1978). “The Story of Art”

Ernst Gombrich

#Genius Quotes #Existence Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”
“Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”
“God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.”
“If boys don't learn, men won't know.”

Source : Douglas Wilson (2001). “Future Men”, p.8, Canon Press & Book Service
“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies”
“I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.”
“I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.”

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