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“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”

Form Order Bits Imagination Common Half Saws Fronts Creation Daughter Function Common Sense Aspiration Dozen Delightful Faded Multiplicity Amiable Parlor Scandalous Dandy

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.”

Needs Humans May Has Beens Art Used Creation Function Notion Humble Practicals Esteem Works Of Art Aesthetic Nobility Great Work Discernment Revision

Book:The Nature of Rationality

Source: The Nature of Rationality

“The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.”

Art Real Passion Sex Imagination Love Is Creation Activity Function Mysterious Feds Rivals Perversion

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”

May Two Eye Poetry Imagination Common Numbers Creativity Creation Poet Birth Exercise Aspect Ideals Function Add All Time Motive Poetic Imaginative Uncommon

Author:Walter Pater

“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.”

“God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.”

World Way Law Principles Creation Eternal Function Inherent

Author:Myles Munroe

“Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.”

People Values Creation Higher Organization Function

Author:Robin Sharma

“When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.”

Knows Mind Believe Together Belief Process Natural Brain Seeing Creation Function Brain Function

Author:Robert Anthony

“Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?”

Heart Artist Space Secret Brain Creation Evolution Function Chosen All Time Regions Nurture Time And Space Penetrate Activate Primeval Secret Places

Book:Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

Source: Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

“Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies”

Business Company Creative Creation Advantage Function Exciting Marketing Advertising Brands Competitive Advantage

Author:Jim Speros

“I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.”

Way Feelings Age Action Views Influence Creation Theory Evolution Shapes Function Myth Officials Our Thoughts Creation Myths

Book:The Essential Mary Midgley

Source: The Essential Mary Midgley

“The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud