“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.”
~Susan B. Anthony; american social reformer, philosopher and activist.
“The constant evasion of emotional experience has created an immaturity which turns all experience into traumatic shocks from which the human being derives no strength or development, but neurosis.”
~ Anais Nin; french-american author, poet and journalist.
“The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity. Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. There is a very wide difference.”
~ Oscar Wilde; irish author, poet, playwright, critic and aesthete.
“‘The Civilized’ murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.”
~ Charles Fourier; french utopian socialist and philosopher.
“You live in a deranged age – more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, Mankind has not the faintest idea of who He is or what He is doing.”
~ Walker Percy; american author and philosopher.
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest of intelligence…”
~ Edgar Allen Poe; american author, critic, and poet.
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”
~ Truman Capote; american author, journalist and critic.
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
~ Albert Camus; french author, journalist and philosopher.
“smart people don’t exist… we alternate certain stupiditys.”
~ deacon khet; american poet, philosopher and murderer of classical literature…
“Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.”
~ Theophile Gautier; french poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art and literary critic.