The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called ‘facts’ or ‘data’ one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations.
The ‘gallows’ are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.