The Nature of Freedom, Elegance, Boldness, Dance, and Masterly Certitude

Every artist knows how different from the state of letting himself go is his most natural condition. The essential thing in heaven and in earth is apparently, to repeat it once more, that there should be long obedience in the same direction. That for centuries, European thinkers only thought in order to prove something. Nowadays on the contrary, we are suspicious of every thinker who wishes to provesomething.