When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.