Whoever Reflects Recognizes That There Are Empty

Apollo Without Dionysus May Indeed Be A Well-informed, Good Citizen But He's A Dull Fellow. He May Even Be 'cultured,' In The Sense One Often Gets From Traditionalist Writings In Education. . . . But Without Dionysus He Will Never Make And Remake A Culture.

The Essence Of Creativity Is Figuring Out How To Use What You Already Know In Order To Go Beyond What You Already Think.

We Carry With Us Habits Of Thought And Taste Fostered In Some Nearly Forgotten Classroom By A Certain Teacher.

There Is, Perhaps, One Universal Truth About All Forms Of Human Cognition: The Ability To Deal With Knowledge Is Hugely Exceeded By The Potential Knowledge Contained In Man's Environment. To Cope With This Diversity, Man's Perception, His Memory, And His Thought Processes Early Become Governed By Strategies For Protecting His Limited Capacities From The Confusion Of Overloading. We Tend To Perceive Things Schematically, For Example, Rather Than In Detail, Or We Represent A Class Of Diverse Things By Some Sort Of Averaged "typical Instance.

Passion, Like Discriminating Taste, Grows On Its Use. You More Likely Act Yourself Into Feeling Than Feel Yourself Into Action.