What Bertrand Russell thinks about creativity
British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
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2 dated positions, c. 1917 to c. 1918, in their own words. Our reading of what Bertrand Russell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.
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Their wordsThe best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.