“We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.”
Source: The Meaning of Culture (1929), p. 222
Context: Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.
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