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"Marius the Epicurean" Quotes
"Marius the Epicurean" follows the intellectual and spiritual journey of a young Roman, Marius, as he seeks meaning in philosophy, beauty, and early Christianity during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.
Quotes
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
The ever-present conception of death cannot but warp and sterilize the whole soul.
Beauty then and the enjoyment of beauty is a science; and all art is capable of enlargement and of progress.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
The great thing, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
The only way to reach the ideal is by means of the senses.
The mere purport or content of a work of art is nothing but a stimulus to the imaginative activity.
The very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.
There will be little else left to do, but to look for new pleasures in the heavens, or to content ourselves with the old, to employ the mind upon the present, or speculate upon the future.
