... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain t...hings occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the mo...st disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. Born of the sensibility, it sows and creates it in its turn. It is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life. Science, or to use a broader term, knowledge, has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. To know, and to know still more--the instinct for knowledge is insatiable, because the subject of knowledge is limitless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive... sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After the dreadful frustrations Freudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon W...altz a sublimation of the push-button power-feeling such as the manipulation of an elevator, up (erection!) and down (revenge suicide!).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in on...e act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »