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  • In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Wise Quotes , Art Quotes
  • Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. O. Scott Quotes , Art Quotes , Causes Quotes
  • The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Unique Quotes
  • We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes