[b]Arthur Koestler
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.[/b]
Cue, for example, Karl Marx.
On the other hand…
Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it–an abstract and geometric love.
Totalitarian love as it were.
Still…
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
In other words, one concocted with the best of all possible intentions.
Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Provided of course they find each other.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
To you if not to anyone else.
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations.
In other words, one generation of objectivists at a time.