When Ideas Become Gods, Consciousness

If The Mystical Lovers Of The Arts, Who Consider All Criticism Dissection And All Dissection Destruction Of Enjoyment, Thought Logically, An Exclamation Like "goodness Alive!" Would Be The Best Criticism Of The Most Deserving Work Of Art. There Are Critiques Which Say Nothing But That, Only They Do So More Extensively.

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.

Wit As An Instrument Of Revenge Is As Infamous As Art Is As A Means Of Sensual Titillation.

One Should Have Wit, But Not Wish To Have It; Otherwise There Will Be Witticism, The Alexandrian Style Of Wit.

A Priest Is He Who Lives Solely In The Realm Of The Invisible, For Whom All That Is Visible Has Only The Truth Of An Allegory.