For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. 689
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. 700
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. 918
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. 730
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. 689
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. 655
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. 645
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. 672
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. 2.02K
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. 753
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. 744
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. 1.31K
