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I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
To express the same idea in still another way I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
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