People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on how eccentricity can lead to social isolation while also granting a sense of freedom.
In this quote, Vaslav Nijinsky expresses the paradox of being perceived as eccentric or 'mad,' suggesting that such a reputation allows him the freedom to be himself without the constraints of societal norms. The acknowledgment that people are drawn to eccentricity yet will keep their distance highlights the complex relationship between individuality and social acceptance.
In practice
During a speech on creativity, one might use this quote to highlight the value of embracing one's uniqueness.
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not βthe thinker.β The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter β beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace β arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
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