Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

But every one belongs to every one else