Affirmation Quote by Aleister Crowley

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal…

— Giordano Bruno

“There is no greatness without a continual solicitation to madness which, while it must be overcome, must never be completely lacking. One might profit…

— Friedrich Schelling

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able…

— Edith Hamilton

Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their…

— Jon Jones

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince…

— Albert Camus

“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler it is…

— Carl Von Clausewitz

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which…

— Joseph Addison

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

— Ezra Pound

“If the intellect functions in wrong direction, it is deceit and if it turns in the right direction, it will get one’s work done.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire