Originals Quotes - Page 7

• In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Attitude, Tragedy, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1949). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, New York : H. Holt

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• The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

  Mencius

  Learning, Heart, Sole

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• In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

  William Hazlitt

  Views, Water, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2095, Delphi Classics

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• One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

  Dalai Lama

  Failing, Description, Caught

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• Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Men, People, Mount Rushmore

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• The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Differences, People

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• How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

  Blaise Pascal

  Admiration, Painting, Vain

  Pensees no. 74 (1658)

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• How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Painting, Vain

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• I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.

  Joe Locke

  Creativity, Leader, Degrees

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• The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

  Henri Matisse

  Children, Artist, Looks

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Views, Individuality

  "Selected Ideas (1799-1800)". "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms", translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

  Epicurus

  Love, Beautiful, Sight

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Intelligence, Tools, Faculty

  "Creative Evolution" (1907) by Henri Bergson, as quoted in "Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence" by David Kreps, 2015.

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• If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

  Paul Gauguin

  Shadow, Starting, Figures

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• A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

  Anatole Broyard

  Progress, Generations, Culture

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• Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

  Dogen

  Light, Self, Mind

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• Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reflection, Authenticity, Creation

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• The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Giving, Vision, Originality

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• A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Dangerous Situations, Anxiety, Want

  "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.

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• Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

  John Cleese

  Long, Giving, Mind

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• Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

  Martin Seligman

  Hope, Art, Limits

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Original Thought, Elements, Virtue

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• The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Rewards, Our Society

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.120, Penguin

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• Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Taken, Mean

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.

  Marion Milner

  Memories, Thinking, Secret Places

  Marion Milner (2005). “The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis”, p.66, Routledge

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