empathic quotes

No great discovery has ever been made by the power of reason. Reason is a means of communicating, imperfectly, some discoveries to others, and in the case of the sciences, a method of trying to render this communication certain and precise. But no one ever made a discovery through syllogisms, through reason, through this makeshift form of transmiss

you should distrust any thoughts you’ve had indoors.

places are of incredible ugliness, which takes away also from the will to discover new things at all.

even sadness of certain kinds makes life beautiful and can be a spur to great things.

I could say leisure is the source of all great things. The preservation of life is tedious; freedom from its demands is needed for all high science, art, and literature as well, and also all beautiful living, all adventures, all development of your body to the heights of beauty.