You Perhaps Now Know That Desire Reduces

[f]or Academic Men To Be Happy, The Universe Would Have To Take Shape. All Of Philosophy Has No Other Goal: It Is A Matter Of Giving A Frock Coat To What Is, A Mathematical Frock Coat. On The Other Hand, Affirming That The Universe Resembles Nothing And Is Only Formless Amounts To Saying That The Universe Is Something Like A Spider Or Spit.

We Reach Ecstasy By A Contestation Of Knowledge. Were I To Stop At Ecstasy And Grasp It, In The End I Would Define It.

The Great Monuments Are Raised Up Like Dams, Pitting The Logic Of Majesty And Authority Against All The Shady Elements: It Is In The Form Of Cathedrals And Palaces That Church And State Speak And Impose Silence On The Multitudes.

Though The Immediate Impression Of Rebellion May Obscure The Fact, The Task Of Authentic Literature Is Nevertheless Only Conceivable In Terms Of A Desire For Fundamental Communication With The Reader.

Naturally, Love's The Most Distant Possibility.