“I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole, I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance. I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that despite the recent triumphs of science, man hasn’t changed much in the last 2000 years and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves. I believe in courtesy: the rituals by which we avoid hurting other people’s feelings by satisfying our own egos. I think that we should remember that we are part of a great whole, which we call, for convenience, “nature” – all living things are now brothers and sisters … we can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.” – Kenneth Clark
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