Quotes About Creation

I took the initiative in creating the Internet

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

a lack of love: between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, wanting in harmony in itself.

Our designs go wrong because our feelings of contentment are woven from fine and unexpected filaments.

Although we belong to a species which spends an alarming amount of its time blowing things up, every now and then we are moved to add gargoyles or garlands, stars or wreaths, to our buildings for no practical reason whatever.

what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.

How different everything is for the craftsman who transforms a part of the world with his own hands, who can see his work as emanating from his being and can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object — whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug — and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years..

A woman feels a man inside her and feels life. The act they engage in is the one from which all life springs, and for that moment they can feel that they are living, not dying.

Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

Any attempt to improve on God's creation will distance you from God's creation

What happens to you happens from you.

The human psyche is a strange creation. We believe that the known is always preferable to the unknown, even if the known sucks.

El Amor, que es lo que me creó, es lo que soy.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. — ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

Design Is a Big Word

Building better worlds

modern democracy has been derived from, and can only be justified by, the theological dogmas of Hebraic-Christianity according to which all men are created by God and equal before Him.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

the birth of our universe was a one-performance event, and we weren't there in the audience.

The most profound questions seem to have this fascinating aspect: Either they have no answer at all, or all possible answers seem impossible. So, here's one more profound question: Did anything exist before the Big Bang? Was the Big Bang the beginning of time? Or was there something before, some kind of eternal "meta-universe" that spawned our universe and possibly other universes?

Man] is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.