Every work of art is about everything.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

I like to do something I fear.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

The obvious is obviously wrong.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.