Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself. Psychology of the Unconscious
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
Beauty had this penalty -- it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life -- froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty. To the Lighthouse
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. Moby Dick
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