“Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.” IfsSometimesFeelingsHandsInspirationHappensAgeNumbersConsciousnessStepsTearsPoetFineUnderstoodStrongerNotionThings HappenEndlessDivinityEcstasyFloodToesStrainRelaxedLagOutburst Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.” GivingDoeAsks Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.” BornCreativityMysteryAppearanceSupremeSomething NewProceedingMystery Of Life Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.” SelfLife IsCreativityCreativeFireDevelopmentPerfectionTrue LifeHeavinessSelf Perfection Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.” HumansPhilosophySpiritExistenceCreativePerceptionHuman Existence Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.” HumansArtistHuman NatureCreatorMetaphysicsRealist Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.” MenStatesMomentsLyingCreativeProductsActivitySlaveryLiberationEcstasyCreativeness Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.” WorldMeanDesireCreativityCreativeBasesFoundationDepthInexplicable Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.” WayTodayCultureFoundCreativitySubjectsIdentityObjectsCrisisDepthCreatorSpheresTurning PointsForeseenRipening Author:Nikolai Berdyaev