Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
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A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.
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The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
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The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a "safe" code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.
