Creativity Quotes

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

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"The best thing that we can offer to the universe is our active participation in its ongoing creation."
Dewey, John
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"The deepest urge in human nature is the urge to participate in the creation of new value."
Dewey, John
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"Creativity is the divine spark."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Ideas are powerful because they persist."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The structures of society are expressions of human creativity and meaning-making."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The human spirit manifests itself most fully in creative expression."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Every document, every work of art is a manifestation of human consciousness striving to express itself."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Meaning is not found but created through the interpretation of experience."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Forget all the rules you ever learned about writing. Almost everything you've already written is better than you think it is."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Genius is talent exercised with courage."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"A new word is like a fresh fruit in the language."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Creativity is the rearrangement of existing elements."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Creativity flourishes in conditions of freedom."
Spencer, Herbert
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"We are all creative beings with the capacity to shape reality through our thoughts."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"To create is to participate in the work of the universe."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"We know ourselves through our expressions and creations."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The human spirit expresses itself through infinite cultural forms."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The continuity of culture depends on creative reinterpretation."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Culture is humanity's greatest achievement and expression."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"All that man creates comes from within himself."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Creativity flourishes in societies of order and stability."
Comte, Auguste
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"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
James, William
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Dewey, John
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"The desire to create is one of the deepest human impulses."
Dewey, John
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"Imagination, as the bold effort to perceive relations and to unify knowledge, is the very heart of thinking."
Dewey, John
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"The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The imagination transcends the limitations of the real world and its present conditions."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The power of the imagination is the power of the mind."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Creativity flows from the depths of human feeling."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"True creativity emerges when people are freed from material want."
Marx, Karl