The Place Where Optimism Most

The Prevalence Of Suicide, Without Doubt, Is A Test Of Height In Civilization; It Means That The Population Is Winding Up Its Nervous And Intellectual System To The Utmost Point Of Tension And That Sometimes It Snaps.

The Mathematician Has Reached The Highest Rung On The Ladder Of Human Thought.

It Is Here [in Mathematics] That The Artist Has The Fullest Scope Of His Imagination.

The Sun, The Moon And The Stars Would Have Disappeared Long Ago... Had They Happened To Be Within The Reach Of Predatory Human Hands.

...aesthetic Values Are Changed Under The Influence Of Sexual Emotion; From The Lover's Point Of View Many Things Are Beautiful Which Are Unbeautiful From The Point Of View Of Him Who Is Not A Lover, And The Greater The Degree To Which The Lover Is Swayed By His Passion The Greater The Extent To Which His Normal Aesthetic Standard Is Liable To Be Modified.