Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

I'm not a creature of your government or your world. I'm not a creature at all. I am art.

译文：受到众人的指责，触犯众怒，不会有好下场。

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.