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To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights...
To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights...
There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind...
There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind...
Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or read more
Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of read more
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Happy is he who bears a god within.
Happy is he who bears a god within.
