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“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

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Michelangelo Buonarroti was a renowned Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet during the Renaissance. He is celebrated for his exceptional artistic achievements and profound influence on the world. more

“The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.”

Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.”

Want Helping Wisdom Peace Violence Demand Projects Concern Oneself Surrender Commit Our Time Multitudes Carried Away Fruitfulness

Author:Thomas Merton

“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.”

Wells Children Ends Care Action Suffering Wish Depends Praying Lovers Illusion Our Children Surrender Thoughts And Actions Love And Care Illusion Of Control

Author:Jack Kornfield

“You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.”

Men Beats Philosopher Muscles Pounds Geese Liver

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.”

Has Beens Made Too Much Miserable

Author:Djuna Barnes

“Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

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