I am better than my reputation

The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.