"It seems that God took away the..." - Quote by Socrates
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
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“Laws are not made for the good.”
“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”
“Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it”
More on Creativity
“The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.”
“The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.”
“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.”