Art teaches us not only what to see but what to be.

 

Art teaches us not only what to see but what to be.

 

Bernard Berenson

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Marx teaches us to blame society for our frailties, Freud teaches us to blame our parents, and astrology teaches us to blame the universe. The only place to look for blame is within: you didn't have the guts to bring up your full moon and live the life that was your potential.

 

Joseph Campbell

 

All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.

 

Meister Eckhart

 

Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid.

 

Lucian

 

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.

 

Giuseppe Mazzini

 

What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

 

H. L. Mencken

 

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.

 

Malcolm X