“Monocausality reduces the study of history to meaningless simplicities (p.14).”
― A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
― A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
“How strange painting is, it delights us with representations of objects that are not pleasing in themselves! (15 September 1854)”
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
“Human beings are so strangely constructed that they often find consolation and even happiness in misfortune (for instance, when ones is unjustly persecuted, the comfort of knowing that one deserves a better fate), but it far more happens that a man will be bored by prosperity and even think himself supremely miserable (19 July 1854).”
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
“Beavers will invent a new way of building dams before architects accept a new method or a new style in their art (23 August 1854).”
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
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