Source: My Inventions (1919)
Context: The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. Speaking for myself, I have already had more than my full measure of this exquisite enjoyment; so much, that for many years my life was little short of continuous rapture.
Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India (15 April 2003)
“This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”
On the task of modern artists (1959), as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 169
1959 - 1973, Various sources
2015, Remarks to the People of Africa (July 2015)
“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.”
Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter Three, The Romantic Outsider
Source: "The Broadened Responsibilities of Industry's Executive," 1936, p. 362
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
Source: 1960s, Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964), p. 31-32
Source: 1940s, Frontiers in group dynamics II, 1947, p. 153.
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 2: The Place of Science in a Liberal Education
