The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.