Inevitably, in the secret chemistry of the emotions the feeling of pity for a sick person is imperceptibly bound up with tenderness. Beware of Pity
Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. The painting of Gustave Moreau is the painting of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys. Ulysses
"He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." The Analects of Confucius
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. The Karamazov Brothers
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