The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Mikhail Bakunin

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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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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.

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