One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.
If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.
There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity. . . Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.