And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. A Midsummer Night's Dream
To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. Twilight of the Idols
It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality. Twilight of the Idols
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. Diary
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