“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Without love we fall ill.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

There are no mistakes.

If youth knew; if age could.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.

You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead grave, Just stay with the pale moon when darkness wants the night to be brave.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

The human soul needs beauty more than bread.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.