Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat … - Aldous Huxley

First Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance. It is the same in the moral world.

Chastity — the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/78190.Remy_de_Gourmont" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Remy de Gourmont">Remy de Gourmont</a>.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.