The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. |
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. |
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is |
The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp streaked with pigment, who is digging in his big mouth with a toothpick, is a fraud, Aefulanus, He has no teeth |
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. |
The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most keen, To have it thus most disappoint |
The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere |
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. |
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth, you have given away |
The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours |
The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it |
The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past |
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. |
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. |
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. |