Quotes About Creation

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.

Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.

It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

To quote from Le Délabrement de l'Occident of Cornelius Castoriadis, An autonomous society, a truly democratic society, is a society which questions everything that is pre-given and by the same token liberates the creation of new meanings.

El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre del impulso creativo y, por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final.

el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas.

La función de la cultura no consiste en satisfacer necesidades existentes sino en crear necesidades nuevas, mientras

Progress is a law—and theft too has its creation.

in art, we do not run to keep up with random moments, we select & create the moment occurring forever:

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognized by burning. from A Poem is a Walk, Epoch 18 (Fall 1968): 114-19.

Sow the seeds of creation, and worry not about the results, for they shall blossom in the harvest of Life.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

To observe the seventh day does not mean merely to obey or to conform to the strictness of a divine command. To observe is to celebrate the creation of the world and to create the seventh day all over again, the majesty of holiness in time, "a day of rest, a day of freedom," a day which is like "a lord and king of all other days," 17 a lord and king in the commonwealth of time.

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.