To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

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.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.