You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought.
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows – images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
