"Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.”

“You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.”

“Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.”

“All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.”

“Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.”

“All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.”

“It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.”