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To achieve great things, we must be self-confined: mastery is revealed in limitation.

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 To achieve great things, we must be self-confined: mastery is revealed in limitation.

Feb 08,2024

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#quotes #art #philosophy #creativity #limits #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #Selected Poetry #limitation

What we call imagination, which we value so highly in great poets — is, essentially, unbridled, loose, or if you will,

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 What we call imagination, which we value so highly in great poets — is, essentially, unbridled, loose, or if you will,

Feb 06,2024

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#quotes #poetry #art #Artists #philosophy #creativity #poets #imagination #Lev Shestov #All Things Are Possible

My thoughts are tired. I am not seeing things freshly, but rather in a pedestrian, lifeless way. It is as if a flame had

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 My thoughts are tired. I am not seeing things freshly, but rather in a pedestrian, lifeless way. It is as if a flame had

Jan 12,2024

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#quotes #life #philosophy #inspiration #creativity #Ludwig Wittgenstein #imagination #Nachlass

There is a difference between the creative idea and the creative act on the one hand, and the product on the other.

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 There is a difference between the creative idea and the creative act on the one hand, and the product on the other.

Jan 09,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #imagination #society #actions #ideas #culture #Nikolai Berdyaev #Slavery and Freedom

All art is immoral.

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 All art is immoral.

Jan 07,2024

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#quotes #oscar wilde #art #Artists #philosophy #creativity #morality #Intentions #norms

Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

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 Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

Jan 03,2024

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#quotes #writers #change #Artists #philosophy #creativity #poets #awareness #progress #images #Frederick Douglass #Pictures and Progress

Reason is exalted and called Godlike, and sometimes accorded the highest place among human faculties; but grand and wonderful

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 Reason is exalted and called Godlike, and sometimes accorded the highest place among human faculties; but grand and wonderful

Dec 20,2023

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#quotes #art #philosophy #creativity #imagination #reason #rationality #Frederick Douglass #Pictures and Progress

Creativeness is something mysterious and hidden. The revelation of creativeness does not come from above but rather from below —...

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 Creativeness is something mysterious and hidden. The revelation of creativeness does not come from above but rather from below —...

Dec 07,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #humanity #Nikolai Berdyaev #The Meaning of the Creative Act

Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness

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 Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness

Jan 21,2023

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#time #quotes #philosophy #creativity #joy #present #freedom #liberty #creation #Nikolai Berdyaev #Slavery and Freedom

The man of powerful intellect runs over with ideas; he scatters them by the handful. He is wretched if he cannot share them

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 The man of powerful intellect runs over with ideas; he scatters them by the handful. He is wretched if he cannot share them

Dec 28,2022

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#quotes #art #Artists #philosophy #intellectuals #creativity #thinking #Peter Kropotkin #ideas #Anarchist Morality #sharing

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.

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 A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.

Dec 23,2022

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#quotes #oscar wilde #art #Artists #philosophy #creativity #beauty #aesthetics #individuality #The Soul of Man Under Socialism

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too,

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 To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too,

Dec 16,2022

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#quotes #life #philosophy #creativity #notes from underground #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #destruction #pleasure #well-being

Even men of genius cannot keep up the creative activity to the last. As soon as they have acquired their technique, they

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 Even men of genius cannot keep up the creative activity to the last. As soon as they have acquired their technique, they

Nov 22,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #growth #character #repetition #genius #Lev Shestov #All Things Are Possible

Man is an animal, for the most part a creative one, prone to striving for a goal consciously and to engaging in the arts

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 Man is an animal, for the most part a creative one, prone to striving for a goal consciously and to engaging in the arts

Oct 31,2022

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#goals #quotes #Feelings #philosophy #creativity #humanity #notes from underground #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #desires #passions

Personality must perform its self-existent, original, creative acts, and this alone makes it personality and constitutes

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 Personality must perform its self-existent, original, creative acts, and this alone makes it personality and constitutes

Mar 07,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #personality #expression #Nikolai Berdyaev #originality #Slavery and Freedom

Man frees himself by bringing forth God or making him visible, and this is how he becomes immortal.

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 Man frees himself by bringing forth God or making him visible, and this is how he becomes immortal.

Feb 07,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #freedom #ideas #creation #immortality #liberation #Friedrich Schlegel #platonism

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. … For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it

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 At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. … For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it

Feb 05,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #rationality #chaos #irony #reasons #Frederick Douglass #arguments

Almost everything is imitation… The most original minds borrowed from one another… It is with books as with the fire in

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 Almost everything is imitation… The most original minds borrowed from one another… It is with books as with the fire in

Jan 03,2022

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#quotes #literature #art #philosophy #creativity #voltaire #imitation #Lettres philosophiques #originality

Irony is the clear consciousness of eternal agility, of an infinitely teeming chaos.

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 Irony is the clear consciousness of eternal agility, of an infinitely teeming chaos.

Dec 29,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #imagination #chaos #ideas #irony #Friedrich Schlegel

What never was seen or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies

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 What never was seen or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies

Dec 14,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #creativity #imagination #thinking #creation #David Hume #An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

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 Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Dec 05,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #imagination #humanity #Michel de Montaigne #Essais

Boredom sets in right after the creative act is finished. The act of creating is stimulating and exciting and in the

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 Boredom sets in right after the creative act is finished. The act of creating is stimulating and exciting and in the

Aug 30,2021

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#mental health #quotes #quoteoftheday #writer #writing #literature #books #quote #words #wisdom #mental illness #lit #art #philosophy #prose #quotation #creativity #philosopher #bibliophile #literary #excitement #painting #artist #boredom #creative #eric maisel #artists boredom and addiction #stimulation #performing

Genius is the ability to act wisely without precedent — the power to do the right thing the first time. A capacity for

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 Genius is the ability to act wisely without precedent — the power to do the right thing the first time. A capacity for

Aug 20,2021

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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character;...

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 To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character;...

Apr 28,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #character #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #Maxims and Reflections #ideas #possibility #impossibility