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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
Instinct is untaught ability.
Instinct is untaught ability.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known read more
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
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'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
[Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.
Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]