"Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people."

Arthur Koestler - I've read his Act of Creation.

True creativity often starts where language ends.
— Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation, 1964.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.
— Arthur Koestler

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.
— Arthur Koestler

(That quote above reminds me of Hegel's Dialectic - "Dialectic is thus the transition of things, and of knowledge, from potentiality or abstraction to actuality and content, but in such a way that the arising of a fuller determination points beyond itself to a further determination. Every determination is both a result and a new beginning, concrete and abstract, for it occurs within a process of the becoming of a thing (or of knowledge), and hence is concrete relative to the origin of the process but abstract relative to the telos of the whole process. A thing becomes more and more fully developed through this successive dialectic of self-reconstruction." - the transmutation of a form into its opposite and the synthesis of those opposites into something new and transcendental.. always the dance of the contradictions; of assertion and dissolution.

And Koestler recognizes the same process: "If we watch ourselves honestly, we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated."

Like Michel Foucault, the act of asserting something by naming it, is what makes it possible to negate/oppose and control the thing. Kierkegaard said that too. Probably everyone said this, but I haven't read everyone yet.

And yes, Foucault's dialectic is different from Hegel's, but whatever. (I should use that line as my thesis.)

More on the act of creation:

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
— Emerson

Begin at the beginning... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
— Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 1832-1898

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
— Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Proverbs in Prose

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
— English proverb

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Don´t ask what the world needs.
Rather ask – what makes you come alive?
Then go and do it!
Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive
— Howard Thurman