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“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”

Art Faith Opinion Painting Duty Public Opinion Disregard Disregarded

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.”

Thinking Men Faith Choices Opinion Subjects Obstacles Surface Fearful

Book:Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes

Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes

“In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.”

May Ideas Matter Reason Faith Opinion Principles Cases Clear Judging Authority Evidence All Things Contrary Quitting Revelations Evident Obliged Decree Pretence

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding