"Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible...." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
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“No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.”
“It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.”
“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
More on Philosophy
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.”
More on Life
“If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.”
“A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]”
“When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”