So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.