Art & Creativity Sayings

Why do you separate the good from the evil? Is it not I who created both?

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I have been so afflicted with gout that I have not been able to write a single word with my own hand.

The art of governing consists in knowing how to choose.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

I have created a nation out of sticks and stones.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot.

For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Why should I persecute those who are equally the creatures of God?

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those that were of no use.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Man, in so far as he is determined to act, is a part of nature, and is necessarily determined to do whatever he does.

Monads have no windows through which anything could enter or depart.