Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.