A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.