The Ancient Greeks, As Plato Reports, Believed

Creativity Is The Process Of Bringing Something New Into Being. Creativity Requires Passion And Commitment. It Brings To Our Awareness What Was Previously Hidden And Points To New Life. The Experience Is One Of Heightened Consciousness: Ecstasy.

To Believe Fully And At The Same Moment To Have Doubts Is Not At All A Contradiction: It Presupposes A Greater Respect For Truth, An Awareness That Truth Always Goes Beyond Anything That Can Be Said Or Done At Any Given Moment.

Courage Is Necessary To Make Being And Becoming Possible.

Every Human Being Must Have A Point At Which He Stands Against The Culture, Where He Says, This Is Me And The Damned World Can Go To Hell.

A Historical Perspective Can Also Help Free Us From The Ever-present Danger -- Especially At Danger In The Social Sciences -- Of Absolutizing A Theory Or Method Which Is Actually Relative To The Fact That We Live At A Given Moment In Time In The Development Of Our Particular Culture.