“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
“Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other forms of fun. . . / With this the gist and sum of it, / What earthly good can come of it?”
Dorothy Parker
“The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe”
Blaise Pascal
“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged”
William Cowper
“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds”
Mark Twain
