A Thing Can Only Live

No, Life Has Not Disappointed Me. On The Contrary, I Find It Truer, More Desirable And Mysterious Every Year -- Ever Since The Day When The Great Liberator Came To Me: The Idea That Life Could Be An Experiment Of The Seeker For Knowledge -- And Not A Duty, Not A Calamity, Not Trickery.

For Out Of Fear And Need Each Religion Is Born, Creeping Into Existence On The Byways Or Reason.

The Grand Style Arises When Beauty Wins A Victory Over The Monstrous.

In Art The End Does Not Sanctify The Means: But Sacred Means Employed Here Can Sanctify The End.

That Little Hypocrites And Half-crazed People Dare To Imagine That On Their Account The Laws Of Nature Are Constantly Broken; Such An Enhancement Of Every Kind Of Selfishness To Infinity, To Impudence, Cannot Be Branded With Sufficient Contempt. And Yet Christianity Owes Its Triumph To This Pitiable Flattery Of Personal Vanity.