Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is$$$ but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Knowledge is in the end$$$ based on acknowledgement.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact$$$ but even if it is$$$ what problems that really solves.

We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story$$$ but I have my off moments.

Whereof one cannot speak$$$ thereof one must be silent.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But$$$ if possible$$$ to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.