The Two Great Dividers Are Religion And

There Is No Virtue In Penance And Fasting Which Waste The Body; They Are Only Fanatical And Monkish.

All Perception Is Colored By Emotion.

. . . As To Moral Feeling, This Supposed Special Sense, The Appeal To It Is Indeed Superficial When Those Who Cannot Think Believe That Feeling Will Help Them Out, Even In What Concerns General Laws: And Besides, Feelings Which Naturally Differ Infinitely In Degree Cannot Furnish A Uniform Standard Of Good And Evil, Nor Has Any One A Right To Form Judgments For Others By His Own Feelings. . . .

Art Does Not Want The Representation Of A Beautiful Thing, But The Representation Of Something Beautiful.

Great Minds Think For Themselves.