Quotes About Creation

the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? I

yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

those who have made their own money don't just care about it because {5} it's useful, as other people do, but because it's something they've made themselves.

Mais on ne saurait mieux le faire qu'avec une

Que sobre todo objeto hay tres artes distintas: la de utilizarlo, la de fabricarlo y la de imitarlo?

Everything that is responsible for creating something out of nothing is a kind of poetry; and so all the creations of every craft and profession are themselves a kind of poetry, and everyone who practices a craft is a poet.

what is it that always is, but never comes to be, and what is it that comes to be† but never is?

A mere speck that nevertheless constantly contributed to the good of the whole--is you, you who have forgotten that nothing is created except to provide the entire universe with a life of prosperity. You forget that creation is not for your benefit: you exist for the sake of the universe.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.

Distruggere l'uomo è difficile, quasi quanto crearlo: non è stato agevole, non è stato breve, ma ci siete riusciti, tedeschi. Eccoci docili sotto i vostri sguardi: da parte nostra nulla più avete a temere: non atti di rivolta, non parole di sfida, neppure uno sguardo giudice.

Destruir l'home és difícil, gairebé tant com crear-lo: no ha estat senzill, no ha estat ràpid, però ho heu aconseguit, alemanys. Heu-nos aquí dòcils davant de les vostres mirades: per part nostra ja no heu de témer res: ni actes de revolta, ni paraules de desafiament, ni tan sols una mirada inculpatòria.

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

I've never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct.

And since he was unable to give him any form, he would honor him with his works: Natural products were to be a simile for the world, and above them would burn a flame symbolizing the spirit of man, yearning upwards toward its maker.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

God made only one you and He threw the mold away.

Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.

I hate that I see the world through eyes you crafted.

It might be called denial by some, but in that moment I thought it was the very strength that made humanity so successful… the ability to transcend reality, to create reality around them, even for a moment

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces. Essay on the Biological Sciences , in: Good Reading (1958)

And as life began in the sea, so each of us begins his identical life in a miniature ocean within his mother's womb.

As Albert Schweitzer has said, "Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.