“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.”
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.”
“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.”
“We need to see with our hearts and not our eyes.”
“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”