The Universe... Is A Machine For The

Art Has No Other Object Than To Set Aside The Symbols Of Practical Utility, The Generalities That Are Conventionally And Socially Accepted, Everything In Fact Which Masks Reality From Us, In Order To Set Us Face To Face With Reality Itself.

If Reality Impacted Directly On Our Senses And Our Consciousness, If We Could Have Direct Communication Between The Material World And Ourselves, Art Would Be Unnecessary.

Intuition Is A Method Of Feeling One's Way Intellectually Into The Inner Heart Of A Thing To Locate What Is Unique And Inexpressible In It.

Only Those Ideas That Are Least Truly Ours Can Be Adequately Expressed In Words.

I Believe That The Time Given To Refutation In Philosophy Is Usually Time Lost. Of The Many Attacks Directed By Many Thinkers Against Each Other, What Now Remains? Nothing, Or Assuredly Very Little. That Which Counts And Endures Is The Modicum Of Positive Truth Which Each Contributes. The True Statement Is, Of Itself, Able To Displace The Erroneous Idea, And Becomes, Without Our Having Taken The Trouble Of Refuting Anyone, The Best Of Refutations.