Creativity Quotes

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

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"We create meaning through our conceptual and linguistic practices."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"We construct meaning through communal practices and shared language."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Active genesis creates new meanings."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Dewey, John
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"We cannot tell where inspiration ends and imitation begins."
Dewey, John
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"Human beings are fundamentally creative."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The creative imagination is humanity's greatest gift."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The creative act is an act of freedom."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The spirit finds its truest expression in creativity."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Language shapes thought; therefore, linguistic reform is a path to clearer thinking."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"Genius is talent exercised with courage."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The best thinking has been done in the world the thinking beside a fire."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The intellectual semination of ideas is as real as the physical semination of seeds."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Imagination is not a luxury of the mind but essential to its very functioning."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
James, William
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Creation is not finished until the individual has worked it out in his own thinking."
Dewey, John
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"Creativity requires both imagination and discipline."
Dewey, John
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"Creativity is not the gift of the few; it is the birthright of every thinking being."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The creative act is fundamentally irrational; no method can guarantee its occurrence."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Symbols grow; they come into being by development out of other signs."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Ideas are what makes us human and what makes us capable of progress."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Every dynamical action depends on a continuous stream of thought."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Every bringing-forth is a revealing, whether in nature or art."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Meaning is not found in the world; it is created through the intentional activity of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"We are not passive recipients of experience; we actively constitute the meanings we encounter."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The constitution of meaning in consciousness is not creation ex nihilo but an active structuring of what gives itself."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The creative energy of humanity cannot be constrained."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
James, William