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Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius. - William Blake To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. - Carl Jung Beauty is the gift of God. - Aristotle By our own spirits we are defied; We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. - William Wadsworth Life is a train of moods. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. - Sun Tzu No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. - Aristotle What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet. - John Keats By thy cold breast and serpent smile, By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile, By that most seeming virtuous eye, By thy shut soul's hypocrisy; By the perfection of thine art Which pass'd for human thine own heart; By thy delight in others' pain, And by thy brotherhood of Cain, I call upon thee! and compel Thyself to be thy proper Hell! - Lord Byron The average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking. - Leonardo da Vinci When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts . . . - William Shakespeare I strongly approve of rational games for they serve to perfect the art of thinking. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. - Aristotle Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Adams Keller God is in the details. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel. - Ed |
