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Which was the most necessary, society already formed to invent languages, or languages already invented to form society?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men /

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot /

The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.

Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

No reason is needed for loving.

love

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin /

artist

The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.

fact

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Denis Diderot /

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

William Shakespeare - Richard III /

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

poetry

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot /

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Nelson Mandela /

The knowledge of death, and of its terrors, is one of the first acquisitions made by man, in consequence of his deviating from the animal state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men /

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

problem

Ideas are cheap. It's only what you do with them that counts.

idea

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

Nelson Mandela /

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin /

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

death

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin /

The mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds — the past and future — is in ourselves or nowhere.

Novalis - Pollen /

Writing is hard work. The fact that I love doing it doesn't make it less hard work.

writing

The individual soul should be in agreement with the world soul.

Novalis - Fragments /

soul

Without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.

Isidore of Seville /

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin /

The highest life is mathematics.

Novalis - Fragments /

life

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.

Nelson Mandela /

freedom

I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Nelson Mandela /

To imagine is to raise the real by a tone.

Gaston Bachelard /

imagination

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Nelson Mandela /

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