Quote of Publilius Syrus - Art has a double face, of...

Biography - Publilius Syrus:

Latin writer *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria
Syria

Quote

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
Publilius Syrus

Quotes about art:

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
Albrecht Dürer

My trade and art is to live.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.”
Vincent Willem van Gogh

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius

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Quotes for: truth:

Love truth, but pardon error.”
Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon - Novum organum

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”
André Gide

The language of truth is simple.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Conformity of the intellect to the things.”
Thomas Aquinas

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
Carl Gustav Jung

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Quotes about science:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
Paul Valéry

science

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”
Karl Popper - Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

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Publilius Syrus also said...

He has what he desires who can limit his desires to what is enough.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

Prudence

Youth must be mastered not by force but by reason.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

In excessive altercation, truth is lost.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

truth

From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

Even a single hair casts a shadow.”
Publilius Syrus

shadow

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