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- Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
- It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
- In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
- There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
- A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
- The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into…
- Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent…
- There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
- I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into…
- Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
- Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough…
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
- When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is…
- It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into…
- A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
- The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
- The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor…
- The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and…
- The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn…
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