Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”
Source: The Second Sin (1973), p. 49.
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Hungarian psychiatrist 1920–2012Related quotes
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.
IX, 5
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
Nus ne puet estre trop parliers
Qui sovent tel chose ne die
Qui torné li est affolie,
Car li sages dit et retrait:
Qui trop parole, il se mesfait.
Source: Perceval or Le Conte du Graal, Line 1650.
“It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.”
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
Original: In arte, per creare qualcosa di unico, bisogna provare la gioia di un bambino, l'euforia di un adolescente, l'insicurezza di un adulto e l'esperienza di un anziano.
Source: prevale.net
Alfred P. Sloan. quoted in: John Bourne (2000), Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction. p. 11