The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a ...monster with heads of the lion, the dragon and the goat; the theologians of the second century, the Trinity, in which the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are inextricably tied; the Chinese zoologists, the ti-yiang, a vermilion supernatural bird, endowed with six feet and four wings, but without a face or eyes; the geometers of the nineteenth century, the hypercube, a figure with four dimensions, which encloses an infinite number of cubes and has as its faces eight cubes and twenty-four squares. Hollywood has just enriched this vain museum of horrors: by means of an artistic malignity called dubbing, it proposes monsters that combine the illustrious features of Greta Garbo with the voice of Aldonza Lorenzo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, th...ou art not my abyss!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see o...nly night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man ...to the plane of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »