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Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.3

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 7.8

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

1921

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 5.6

Psychological literature

Some people are far more sensitive to resemblances, and far more ready to point out wherein they consist, than others are. They are the wits, the poets, the inventors, the scientific men, the practical geniuses.

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.2

Essay · Magazine

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

1930

★ 4.5

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

1962

★ 4.3

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein

1949

★ 3.7

Bees ransack flowers here and there, but then they make honey, which is entirely theirs: it is no longer thyme or marjoram. Similarly a boy will transform and mix his borrowings.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 3.6

Short story · Magazine

We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

1893

★ 3.6

The desire to create is one of the strongest urges a human spirit can contain. It will always break through.

Tennessee Williams

1975

★ 3.5

But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us.

Gertrude · 1910

★ 3.5

Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

Alain de Botton

2010

★ 3.5

I am happier when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1777

★ 2.1

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Frankenstein · 1831

★ 2.1

Interview · Magazine

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

1929

★ 2.1

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Mikhail Bakunin

1842

★ 2.0

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

1948

★ 2.0

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

1953

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

Invention... Arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

1976

★ 2.0

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