“When it is darkest, men see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde I don’t think it’s coincidental that some of my favorite writers and thinkers have such poignant things to say about the stars. The thing I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘creativity’
Starry, Starry Night
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alone, Bill Watterson, creativity, loneliness, orion, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, solitude, stars on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Critical Spirit Creates
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aristotle, art, creativity, machines, philosophy, quotations, technology, Thales on September 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.” -Oscar Wilde I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Technology kills creativity. Or at least misdirects it toward the amorphous illusion of “progress.” It is generally thought that Thales was the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, living sometime around 620 to 540 [...]
