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“But one truth does not displace another. Even apparently contradictory truths do not displace one another. Logic is far too coarse to make the subtle distinctions life demands.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Selected Essays

“I have attempted briefly here to set forth a view of the arts which does not separate them from the rest of life, but rather confuses the difference between Art and Life.”
― John Cage, A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

“He who doesn't see his lover's faults as virtues is not in love.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“Every inventor, every man of originality has been religious and even fanatically so. Perverted by irreligious skepticism, the human mind is like waste land that produces nothing or is covered with weeds useless to man. At such a time even its natural fertility is an evil, for these weeds harden the soil by tangling and intertwining their roots and moreover create a barrier between the sky and the earth. Break up these accursed clods; destroy these fatally hardy weeds; call on every human aid; drive in the plow; dig deep to bring into contact the powers of the earth and the powers of the sky.
Here, gentlemen, is the natural analogy to human intelligence opened or closed to divine knowledge.
The natural sciences themselves are subject to the general law. Genius does not rely much on the slow crawl of logic. Its gait is free, its manner derives from inspiration; one can see its success, but no one has seen its progress....”
― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence