If ever we should find ourselves disposed.... : Quote by Edmund Burke

“ If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how and what we ought to admire; and if we cannot arrive at this combination of admiration with knowledge, rather to believe that we are dull, than that the rest of the world has been imposed on. ”

Edmund Burke
  • From : An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
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