Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
There is always some madness in love.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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