Quotes by Ivor Armstrong Richards

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Without the aid of the arts, very few of our experiences can be compared, and without such comparison we can hardly hope ever to agree on which are to be preferred...

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In the arts are stored, in the only possible way, experiences which have imposed themselves on the most sensitive beings, endowed with special discernment... Thus, the arts, properly approached, provide the most valuable data available for deciding which experiences are more valuable.