Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 165
“A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.”
“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”
196
The Symposium
Letter to Paul Cézanne (16 April 1860), as published in Paul Cézanne : Letters (1995) edited by John Rewald.
“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”
“All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.”
Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
XIV: "Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner_et_Tannh%C3%A4user_%C3%A0_Paris_%28L%E2%80%99Art_romantique%29
L'art romantique (1869)
“Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.”
"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature (1841)
For what can be imagin'd more tormenting, than to seek with eagerness, what for ever flies us; and seek for it in a place, where 'tis impossible it can ever exist?
Part 4, Section 3
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding
"One-on-one with Ship of Theseus’ Anand Gandhi" at film army (3 September 2012) http://www.blog.filmarmy.ca/2012/09/11076/
