To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
