Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
You have to understand the nature of light.
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.
This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.
This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.