All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man


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The reason his name is popping up is he's probably the closest thing out there to John Roberts. And ...
BRADFORD A. BERENSON
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But n...
BERNARD BARUCH
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD
A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD
You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contem...
BERNARD LEVIN
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally ...
BERNARD LEVIN
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin...
BERNARD BECKETT
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS
Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
SAINT BERNARD