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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -- that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,---- and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another...It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Connecting Depression And Artistry Jun 14
CASES; Connecting Depression And Artistry
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.
Published: June 4, 2002
Everyone knows that creative geniuses are all mad. At least that is what the time-honored notion linking creativity and mental illness holds. Recently, this was underscored ...
Creativity and Age Jun 14
I have this constant fear that I have already "peaked" or am currently "peaking" at the age of 32. Basically, I hope it is not all downhill from here because I am not too sure I am very high up. Luckily, I am not alone in this fear and one of my friends just posted a link ...
The Creative Mind Jun 14
I honestly have no idea where I found this. I ran across the text in an "untitled document" while closing "TextMate" which tells me that I wanted to post it but got interrupted mid-formatting. The browser was closed and I don't feel like spending any more time trying to tr...
The Brains Behind Creativity Jun 14
How does the human brain create an evocative haiku, a beautiful painting, a sculpture or even a delicious new dinner?
Neuroscientist Nancy Andreasen tackles that question in her book to be released this fall in paperback: The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius.
A...
[Study] Research on Faith Jun 14
"Faith as Ultimate Concern" by Paul Tillich
Summary by Meghan Ramsay (QCC, 2004)
Source: SUNY Suffolk
According to Tillich, "faith is the state of being ultimately concerned." The Ultimate Concern is that which demands complete surrender of the person who faithfully ac...
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