To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope read more

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you read more

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.