Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to...

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.