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Art is a part of the urge of self. Art, like other activities of the self, cannot be true to itself if it is inconsistent with the rest of the urge for Beauty. Beauty ceases to be Beauty if it is divorced from Goodness and Truth. No attribute of Beauty can be separated from it. That art, which gives an immoral suggestion, is not only immoral and degenerate, but is also low and worthless as art.

"A man who does not hate other ideals does not love his own."

All dreams are images of future events but these images are sometimes blurred and sometimes vivid, depending upon our stimuli for the dream, with the result that some dreams are meaninglessly frightful and some others meaninglessly sweet, just as a person using various spectacles with uneven glasses of various colours and curvatures may make the same scene look more dreadful or more interesting than it really is.

"The true lover feels a joy in winning the beloved’s pleasure by means of service that is in striving to approach him rather than in approaching him actually and finally. A sense of actual approach means the end of further progress and further approach while really there can be no end to the lover’s progress or approach. The demand of his love is to seek the beloved for ever without reaching him."

"Instincts are means to the satisfaction of the urge of consciousness and they have to be satisfied as means and not as an end in themselves."