104 Quotes by Neel Burton

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

The first wisdom is to heed the wise when they speak.

If science aims at alleviating ignorance, art aims at alleviating idiocy, and there is more idiocy than ignorance in the world.

To be happy on our own is the last and highest form of freedom.

A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.

Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be understood as nothing less or more than what they are, an expression of our deepest human nature. By recognizing their traits in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able both to contain them and to put them to good use. This is, no doubt, the highest form of genius.

Knowledge we find in articles, books, and courses, but wisdom we find only in our own hearts.

A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Philosophy is an act of seduction between one true lover and another, most often the philosopher and himself.