3.2 · 47 votes
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Art and Culture
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.3.8 · 15 votes · 155 reads
Various
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.5.0 · 35 votes · 175 reads
Thought and Reason
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.3.0 · 16 votes · 37 reads
Various
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.3.3 · 8 votes · 14 reads
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.4.2 · 37 votes · 57 reads
Thought and Reason
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.4.8 · 26 votes · 134 reads
Art and Culture
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.3.5 · 53 votes · 23 reads
Art and Culture
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.4.1 · 62 votes · 50 reads
Countries
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.4.1 · 39 votes · 24 reads
Thought and Reason
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.4.8 · 58 votes · 168 reads
Various
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.4.8 · 15 votes · 139 reads
Various
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.5.0 · 64 votes · 129 reads
Thought and Reason
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.4.5 · 22 votes · 77 reads
Art and Culture
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.5.0 · 6 votes · 92 reads