The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.