Who said “All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”?

“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”

“The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?”

“The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”

“The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.”

“If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.”

“Good music is very close to primitive language.”

“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”

“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”

“Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”