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