Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.
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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
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All quotes →It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.
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That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
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