Habit Is The Denial Of Creativity And

There Is Only One Prospect Worse Than Being Chained To An Intolerable Existence: The Nightmare Of A Botched Attempt To End It.

When Reality Becomes Unbearable, The Mind Must Withdraw From It And Create A World Of Artificial Perfection. Plato's World Of Pure Ideas And Forms, Which Alone Is To Be Considered As Real, Whereas The World Of Nature Which We Perceive Is Merely Its Cheap Woolworth Copy, Is A Flight Into Delusion.

The Creative Act Does Not Create Something Out Of Nothing; It Uncovers, Selects, Reshuffles, Combines, Synthesizes Already Existing Facts, Ideas, Faculties, And Skills.

Laughter And Weeping, The Greek Masks Of Comedy And Tragedy, Mark The Extremes Of A Continuous Spectrum; Both Provide Channels For The Overflow Of Emotion; Both Are

It Is Impossible To Decide Whether A Particular Detail Of The Pythagorean Universe Was The Work Of The Master, Or Filled In By A Pupil A Remark Which Equally Applies To Leonardo Or Michelangelo . But There Can Be No Doubt That The Basic Features Were Conceived By A Single Mind; That Pythagoras Of Samos Was Both The Founder Of A New Religious Philosophy, And The Founder Of Science, As The Word Is Understood Today.