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Daniel Keyes

Geburtstag: 9. August 1927
Todesdatum: 15. Juni 2014

Daniel Keyes war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der in erster Linie Science-Fiction schrieb.

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„Es gibt kein größere Glück, als die plötzlich aufflammende Lösung eines Problems.“

— Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon

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„Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.“

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

„How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.“

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

„I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.“

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

„Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.“

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

„Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

„I am not only a thing, but also a way of being“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: I am not only a thing, but also a way of being — one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

„Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.“

„It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.

„You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: The answer can't be found in books — or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.

„Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.