"Feeling is its own law and truth."

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“The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.”

“Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.”

“When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.”

“You have to work out how not to die tomorrow.”

“The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.”

“I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.”

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"Yes, it is true, but the difference is that I do it."

— Karel Appel

Art1921–2006

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"It is best to let the horse go his way, and pretend it is yours. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse."

— Robert Smith Surtees

Literature1805–1864

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"The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour."

— William Stanley Jevons

Economics1835–1882

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"To be sure, the human individual can, even must, feel and know himself to be limited—and this is what distinguishes him from the animal—but he can become conscious of his limits, his finite-ness, only…"

— Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Philosophy1804–1872

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