originative

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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no room for, and no need of, the conception of free, originative thought.

From Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life by Jones, Abel J. (Abel John)

Thales, the pioneer of this philosophy, maintained that Water was the originative principle of all things.

From A Short History of Greek Philosophy by Marshall, John

Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Youth is daring and originative; middle age is less venturesome, but it possesses, on the other hand, a wider range of experience.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.