 Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Topics: Courage |
| The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. |
| The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
| The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. |
| A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. |
| Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. |
| True creativity often starts where language ends. |
| Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. |
| Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. |
| A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. |
| One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. |
| The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. |
| The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. |
| Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. |
| The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. |
| Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. |
