Both church theory and practice in the early centuries of Christianity opposed marriage. That is why the church from the first centuries of Christianity did not survive until today.
As soon as man reaches the age at which he must understand, he ceases to understand anything.
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
When art becomes more varied, nature will doubtless become less homogeneous.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
Looking back on life so terrible, so full of turmoil, full of moments of frenzy and hot joys, all this seems like a dream or an illusion. What is the unreal, if not the passion that once burned like a fire? What is incredible if not the things you once passionately believed in? What is the impossible? Which you once did yourself.
When a person comes to visit, he wastes the hosts time and not his own.
Beauty is one of the types of genius, even more so than genius, because it does not require understanding.
Beauty is a gift for several years.
Beauty is the ultimate revelation because it expresses nothing.
The critic is meant to educate the reader, the artist is meant to educate the critic.
Criticism requires much more culture than art.
I have no one to talk to but myself.
He who treats life like an artist, his brain replaces his soul.
Someone said about women that they love by hearing. And men love with their eyes.
In America, hero worship is unusually developed, and heroes are always selected from among criminals.
Because man cannot create anything by himself, he can become a worthy judge of the creations of others.
Only the modern can go out of fashion.
A lie is other people's truth.
The London fogs did not exist until they were created by art.
It is better to be beautiful than virtuous. But on the other hand, it is better to become virtuous than unfeeling.
It is better to adore than to be adored. Enduring someone's adoration is boring and painful.
It is better to have a hundred sins against nature than one virtue against nature.
The best school for studying art is art itself, not life.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Any extremely intense emotion tends to be released by any opposite emotion. Hysterical laughter and tears of joy are examples of the dramatic effects that nature itself provides.
To love all is to love none.
Love always promises something unrealizable and makes you believe in the impossible.
Love has gone out of fashion, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about her that everyone stopped believing in her.
Self-love is a novel that lasts a lifetime.