Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
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Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
To think is to differ.
To think is to differ.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.
