I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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.
It is through color changes that we go forward. . . all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
The great home of the soul is the open road.
Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.