"The sense organs, which are limited in..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.”

“To be worn out is to be renewed.”

“Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.”

“The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.”

“Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.”

“I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.”

“The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.”

“I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.”

“If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.”