It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall
“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,The dark threw its patches down upon me also,The best I had done seem’d to me […]
Quotes
Abnormally normal people
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal […] they are normal only in […]
Your true nature lies immeasurably high above you
“Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly loved up to now, what has elevated your soul, what […]
Misfits to whom the art of life and the art of love are foreign
“[Herman] Hesse’s pre-1917 heroes [in his novels] are made of soft stuff. They are predominantly esthetes who live only in dreams, hopes and anticipation, and […]
Yes and No
What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, […]
The need to link the real and the ideal
We are all deprived; we are all disappointed; and therefore we are all, in some sense idealists. The need to link the real and the […]
Men are even lazier than they are fearful
“In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that there will be no […]
That beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible
“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating […]
When human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial?
Indeed, when human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial? Would commodities on the market, if they could speak, not […]
Their faith is not strong enough to believe in the fertile possibilities of man without shutting their eyes
The “realists” believe, of those who strive for kindness, that these latter mean well but that they are ingenuous, full of illusions—briefly, fools. And they […]
Intellectual yokel
A philosopher, which is what I am supposed to be, is a sort of intellectual yokel who gapes and stares at what sensible people take […]
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind
I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one’s while to buy them. […]
… and it just doesn’t matter, we have not loved life.
“I have been photographing the United States trying by investigating photographically to learn who we are and how we feel, but seeing what we look […]
The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle.
It is very important for the artist to gauge his position aright, to realize that he has a duty to his art and to himself, […]
The neurotic and the artist
“The neurotic fails through incessant vacillation. The artist succeeds in giving shape and form to the conflict and ejects truth and beauty.” – Otto Rank […]