The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
From Charles Horton Cooley
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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