Orginality Quotes

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be. ”
― Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.”
― Benilde Little, Acting Out: A Novel

“The people deny their past won’t have secure and strong future.”
― Ali Rezavand Zayeri

“They can imitate what you do, but they can't imitate how you think.”
― Abhishek Dhandia

“Every inventor, every man of originality has been religious and even fanatically so. Perverted by irreligious skepticism, the human mind is like waste land that produces nothing or is covered with weeds useless to man. At such a time even its natural fertility is an evil, for these weeds harden the soil by tangling and intertwining their roots and moreover create a barrier between the sky and the earth. Break up these accursed clods; destroy these fatally hardy weeds; call on every human aid; drive in the plow; dig deep to bring into contact the powers of the earth and the powers of the sky.
Here, gentlemen, is the natural analogy to human intelligence opened or closed to divine knowledge.
The natural sciences themselves are subject to the general law. Genius does not rely much on the slow crawl of logic. Its gait is free, its manner derives from inspiration; one can see its success, but no one has seen its progress....”
― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence