A Quote by 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.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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Nikolai Berdyaev
Russian - Philosopher
March 18, 1874 - March 24, 1948

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Abraham Maslow

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

Eric Hoffer

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

Minor White

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Abraham Maslow

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

Constantin Stanislavski

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

Ludwig von Mises

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

Thomas M. Disch

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Alexander Dubcek

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

Eric Hoffer

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Muhammad Asad

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.

Eric Hoffer

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.