Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Giving calls for genius.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.