Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"Metaphor is not decoration but the very substance of thought."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Meaning-making is the distinctive human activity."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Meaning is not found but created through human activity and interpretation."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The infinite nature of language reflects the infinite nature of human thought."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Every utterance is an act of world-making."
Katz, Jerrold
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"We construct meaning just as we construct identity and reality."
Katz, Jerrold
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"We create worlds through the propositions we assert and the meanings we assign."
Montague, Richard
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"We are architects of meaning, building understanding one careful word at a time."
Montague, Richard
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"We speak not to express what we already know, but to discover what we did not know we knew."
Montague, Richard
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"We build worlds through language, and language builds us in return."
Montague, Richard
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"Every meaningful sentence is a small act of defiance against chaos."
Montague, Richard
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"Formal systems are humanity's gift to itself, a way of thinking about thinking."
Montague, Richard
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"Language is the tool by which we build the very reality we then discover."
Montague, Richard
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"Creativity flourishes when we grant ourselves permission to be imperfect."
Smith, Barry
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"Creativity requires us to make peace with the messiness of the process."
Smith, Barry
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"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"I sit in front of the fire and woo my muse, but she does not come."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Perry, John
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"Children are natural scientists, constantly testing hypotheses about the world."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Language contains the remnants of suppressed possibilities."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Burge, Tyler
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"Creativity is the bridge between imagination and reality."
Burge, Tyler
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"Every idea has a logical structure that can be made explicit through analysis."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The mind builds cathedrals of thought from simple building blocks of language."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Meaning is not given; it is made through human intention and interpretation."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The richest thoughts often require the most carefully chosen words."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Every metaphor we live by shapes the reality we inhabit."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The capacity to represent is fundamental to thought."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Representation is the essence of thought."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Representation is a natural capacity."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett