Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. For Wilde, aesthetics was a subject of paramount importance representing the very foundations of civilized society. Not to be held to any one social standard Wilde's aesthetic arose as an amorphous conglomeration and adaptation of the theories of his peers and contemporaries. This is reflected throughout his work, which reveals his aesthetic as a matter of constant personal development, incorporating the best and brightest and resulting in texts altogether Wilde. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.