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'tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. it rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

-David Hume

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David Hume

'tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. it rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. the man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. here camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. it makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. it is good for the digestion.

I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with lord acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. the art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. the art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. there is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

The arts are not a frill. the arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. what is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? the arts. they have a wonderful universality. art has the potential to unify. it can speak in many languages without a translator. the arts do not discriminate. the arts lift us up.

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