“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“Dare to be naïve.”

“Dare to be naïve.”

“great creative gifts do not mean fulness and giving out of abundance. On the contrary the expression is that of one who seeks help and strives to emancipate himself.”

“the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful.”

“It is my opinion that you should lend yourself to others and give yourself only to yourself.”

“Whether we do it or not, we’ll have to see—but still, just to have an idea, to think it through, work it out, and calculate the alternatives down to the ultimate consequences, that’ll be a pleasure I’d never expected to have.”

“I wanted to go back over what I had so fleetingly experienced step by step, relishing in retrospect by virtue of that magical self-deception we call memory.”

“Het was fantastisch te leven in deze stad die gastvrij alles wat vreemd was opnam en zich graag gaf,”

“You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end...”

“the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar.”

“had he been only a hardworking craftsman all his life, fitting colours together as a labourer constructs a building out of stones?”

“The woman has a dangerous decision to confront, whether she will live her own life, or that of her children, whether she will be a woman first or a mother first.”

“But you wouldn’t believe what a dead finger does to a living hand.”

“A new world suddenly opened up on the printed page before me, the words moved vigorously towards me as if they had been seeking me for centuries...”

“The world existed for me only in relationship to you.”

“One must seek another certitude beyond the world, beyond the homeland; one must refuse to join the chorus of the demoniacal and create one’s own homeland, one’s own world, outside the present time.”