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Quote by Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which th

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. – Alexander Pope

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. – Alexander Pope

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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. – Thom Yorke

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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. – Gustave Flaubert

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. – Andre Malraux

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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. – Woodrow Wilson

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