But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.