“One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.”
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.