The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Mikhail Bakunin

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Topic

Destructive impulses Creative impulse Creativity

Author

Mikhail Bakunin

Source

Die Reaktionin Deutschland

Language

German

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Anarchist Revolutionary Socialist

From

Russia Europe

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Citation

Bakunin, Michael (published as Jules Elysard). "Die Reaktion in Deutschland." Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Kunst. c. 1842.

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Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol
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English
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 1.

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Some people are far more sensitive to resemblances, and far more ready to point out wherein they consist, than others are. They are the wits, the poets, the inventors, the scientific men, the practical geniuses.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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William James
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The Principles of Psychology
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
English
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 13.

Another quote originally in German

There is... Only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

The Metaphysics of Morals

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Immanuel Kant
Source
The Metaphysics of Morals
Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
German
Time
1785 1780s 18th century
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Original Citation

Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.