Born on August 12th

"The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true."

"The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening."

"What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked."

"I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability."

"In the field of creativity & art, to create is to take a leap of faith into the quiet canvas of your own imagination."

"Art is the expression of our deepest questions, painted in colors that words cannot reach. As a scientist & scholar, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Every act of creation begins with a willing heart and the courage to make a mistake."

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."

"The fullness of life is in the hazards of life."

"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated."

"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active."

"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."

"Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth."

"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."

"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."

"The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers."

"Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do."

"When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that."

"A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake."

"A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions."

"Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it."

"Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi."

"The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being."

"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."

"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."

"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."

"Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man."

"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."