The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
How goodness heightens beauty!
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.