¶ Creativity (1)
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Creativity:
"I reserve creativity for that which came before man. I think of god not as a superman but as the great comprehensive a priori integrity of the Universe within which man finds himself to be operative,…
"Now there is, in the Universe, a vast order. It never lets you down. I throw a coin into the air and it returns and hits the floor every time. Nature is never at a loss what to do when she takes over after you and I sign off. Nature never vacillates in her decisions. The rolling oceans cover three-fourths of the Earth. Along the beaches, the surf is continually pounding on the shore. No two successive local surf-poundings have ever been the same, nor will they ever be the same. They typify the infinitude of individualism of every special-case event in the Universe. While there is great music in the pounding of the surf, as the infinite creative integrity of the Universe is manifest, I cannot identify man, who hears this music, as the creator. I therefore do not use the word creativity in man’s employment of a priori infinite variety.
“True, men have been endowed with very extraordinary faculties.”
¶ Citations
- Mergers & Acquisitions, Vol 1, No.3, pp.42-44, Spring’66
