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A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. it is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. and only the mind that is free can be creative.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A Conditioned Mind May Be Inventive; It

Jiddu Krishnamurti
A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. it is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. and only the mind that is free can be creative.
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