“He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime.”
“...science has "explained" nothing; ...the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness....”
“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can do is to present it as "in a glass, darkly".”
“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”
“...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]”
“Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.”