One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
What we don't understand we don't possess.
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.