Walter Bagehot Quotes about Art

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

Art, Pain, Philosophy

'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

Life is a school of probability.

Walter Bagehot

Life, Art, Philosophy

Quoted in Rudolf Flesch's The New Book of Unusual Quotations

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Walter Bagehot

Art, Thinking, Government

Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

Art, Light, History

Walter Bagehot (2010). “Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

Walter Bagehot Quotes about Art

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