The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man's originality is not only the most beautiful, but the best personality of his life. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The world of art, I have suggested, is full of fakes. Fake originality, fake emotion and the fake expertise of the critics… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. — Fujiwara no Teika Copy Share Image
People would forget ninety-nine small happiness because of one sadness and also would forget ninety-nine small sadness because of one happiness. — Caelan Cheung Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
