Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Life cannot arise spontaneously but comes only from preexisting life.
Exchange is creation.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.