513 Quotes by Camille Paglia

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.