Creativity Quote by Herman Bavinck

“The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Man was created as a being whose very existence is derived from and dependent upon a Creator whom he must acknowledge as such and…

— Jay E. Adams

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is…

— Al-Ghazali

“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”

— Novalis

“consider the possibility that any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least…

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message…

— Loren Eiseley