As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.