Literary notes about creative (AI summary)
Literature employs the term "creative" in an array of contexts that elevate it from a mere descriptor of originality to a marker of divine power, intellectual force, and transformative potential. It is often used to denote a mysterious, almost sacred agency—be it the mythic powers attributed to deities whose influence molds the cosmos [1], the active and spontaneous energy within the human spirit that fuels art and innovation [2], or the mental agility that transforms raw ideas into refined works [3]. At times, creative energy is juxtaposed with its more mundane or even insufficient manifestations, as when artistic output is critiqued for lacking imaginative flair [4]. This word not only underscores the inventive process in science and philosophy [5] but also celebrates the vital, sometimes ineffable, impulse that propels both individuals and civilizations toward progress.
- And the myth says that the Lion serves the creative Providence of the world, which evidently means the Mother of the Gods.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian - I recognised the active and creative power within the accidental.—Accident is in itself nothing more than the clashing of creative impulses.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - It is in solitude that the creative mind organizes the materials appropriated from the group in order to make novel and fruitful innovations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The work is full of ingenuity, but wanting in creative fancy, and by no means impresses the reader with a sense of credibility.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands?
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
