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The Wisdom of Life: Art

The Wisdom of Life: Art

By: Will Durant

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Aug 25, 2024
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"The Letter" by Janez Subic.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.

— Goethe

This deliverance of knowledge from servitude to the will, this forgetting of the individual self and its material interest, this elevation of the mind to the will-less contemplation of truth, is the function of art.

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