“To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.”
Source: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 6
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“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
Contexte: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
Contexte: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Pico Della Mirandola
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Source: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 6
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
Appreciation, Postscript (1889)
Source: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 25
On the Mona Lisa, in Leonardo da Vinci
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“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Conclusion
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
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