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If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially
constructed by the time childhood is over, but read more
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially
constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence
developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will
stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible with talent is genius.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible with talent is genius.
When you truly give up trying to be whole through
others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from read more
When you truly give up trying to be whole through
others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine read more
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she
would come in and sink my read more
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she
would come in and sink my boats.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we
cannot federalize virtue.
If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we
cannot federalize virtue.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have
more things, or more money, in order to read more
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have
more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want to they
will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first
be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what
you want.
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
