Quotes About Creation

But my present point is this: what looks to the flattened-out imagination of late Western modernity like "lifeless" matter is in fact a world throbbing with God-given life. That life is constantly praising its maker by being, particularly and peculiarly, what it is.

Anything that survives the artist's death is not life but belated drama.

I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

Unlike modernism...postmodernism does not see everything as cosmologically, heroically new; rather, its concept of newness or creation is hinged on a sophisticated, almost cynical, sense that all the good and evil, in their most extreme forms, have been tried, somewhere, somehow, and sometime before, and what is left for contemporary men and women is nothing more than shrewd and occasionally breathtaking eclecticism, synthesis, reproduction, and representation in the most literal sense.

We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

No one actually witnessed the first numbers come into being-when we first became aware of them, they'd already been around for a long time.

So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being, like the flowers and the stars? You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

Writing an autobiography means guessing or making up everything you've forgotten. I thought I'd already sufficiently described the character Ivan. In reality, I could no longer even remember him. Or rather: I was starting to remember him all too clearly, which could only mean this Ivan was now nothing more than my creation.

Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

Tous les matins, de plus en plus de gens viennent convoquer les divinités qu'ils ont eux-mêmes créées de toutes pièces entre une hallucination opiacée et une démence suicidaire.

Les hommes sont ainsi faits ; si Dieu les a créés à Son image, Il n'a pas précisé laquelle.

This is the first facet of the Word's universality: it is eternal and thus precedes the particularity of creation.

What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

Svako sje?anje , koliko god mu sadržaj dalek, doga?a se ''sada'', u trenutku kad ga um prizove. Što se ?eš?e prisje?amo, to um ima više prilike prepravljati izvorno iskustvo, jer svako je prisje?anje ponovno stvaranje, a ne reprodukcija.

we create our own reality, even if we don't recognise this.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. —Albert Einstein

We paint the world with our thoughts,

I'm aware that couples tend to embellish 'how we met' folklore with all kinds of detail and significance. We shape and sentimentalise these first encounters into creation myths to reassure ourselves and our offspring that it was somehow 'meant to be'.

fictional character, this seemed to