“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.”
“It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
“This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.”
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“The greatest scientists are artists as well.”
“Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
“Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
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