"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

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“Art is science made clear.”

“Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.”

“Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.”

“Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.”

“Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.”

“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”

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"The Vatican newspaper in Rome, Osservatore Romano, said of National Socialism, ‘It is the most inhumane of all heresies. Hitler is true to his role of anti-Christ.’"

— Dorothy Thompson

Journalism1893–1961

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"To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not."

— Allan Bloom

Philosophy1930–1992

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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

— Denis Diderot

Philosophy1713–1784

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"All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true."

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Science1786–1845

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