"I can stand brute force, but brute..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.”

“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.”

“Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.”

“Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible”

“For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.”

“Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.”

“I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.”

“Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.”

“I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”