More of my favorite quotes, on a variety of topics, from other self-actualizing individuals.
“In the clinical picture of melancholia, dissatisfaction with the ego on moral grounds is the most outstanding feature.”
“The content of mania is no different from that of melancholia. Both disorders are wrestling with the same “complex.” But . . . in melancholia the ego has succumbed to the complex whereas in mania it has mastered it or pushed it aside.”
“Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a man’s soul; its task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.”
“Men who accept as anideal an irrational goal which they cannot achieve, never lift their heads thereafter—and never discover that their bowed heads were the only goal to be achieved.”
“Formulas can only inhibit freedom, externally dictated prescriptions only squelch creativity and assure mediocrity.”
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style.”
“Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery—a process without end.”
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”
“How many have we seen patiently suffering to be roasted or burnt for opinions which, without understanding or knowledge, they have taken from others.”