“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.” IfsMayIdeasReasonProblemSidesAbilityMoralCreativityProgressConflictConsequenceTestsPracticalsHandleConsistencyBettermentAdequacy Author:Rudolph Rummel
“I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity. A creativity without morals fired only by the energy of freedom and the rejection of all codes and laws. For freedom rejects the dictated roles of the law and of the imposed order and for this reason is isolated.” ReasonLawOrderEnergyExistenceAttitudeMoralRolesCreativityCrazySpecialConditionsCriminalsCodeRejectionRejectsIsolated Author:Joseph Beuys
“You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.” KnowsShouldCountrySeemsTodayAmericaNationsChallengesLeaderAcceptingMoralCreativityOptimismGreat NationsOptimism And Hope Author:Tom Vilsack
“Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.” MayMoralCreativityHistoryIntellectualSuicideLiberationInvitationsPostmodernismSirens Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
“Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.” PeopleIfsArtSpiritualArtistTermMoralCreativityCreationShapesIdealsCoreRealmsBroadsIdealismDefining Book:Essential Turgenev Source: Essential Turgenev
“Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.” SelfLawEducationBeautyMoralCreativityVirtueCreationMoralityFindingsObedienceIntuitiveCultivatingMoral Education Author:Andrew Linzey
“There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as a provocation, but I also believe that we can still have very profound creativity with a moral sense.” BelieveArtStillsI CanMoralCreativityClaimsProfoundWestConsiderationProvocation Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.” PeopleCountryUseJoySpiritBlackMoralCreativityWeaponsCapacityClarityAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleBoundlessHallelujahAmerican Spirit Author:Van Jones
“The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.” PeopleUseIndividualGivenMoralCreativityCasesEconomyOur LivesProduceInitiativeFree Economy Author:Paul Ryan