Quotes About Creation

We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

I]f it be any part of religion to believe that man was made by a good Being, it is more consistent with that faith to believe, that this Being gave all human faculties that they might be cultivated and unfolded, not rooted out and consumed, and that he takes delight in every nearer approach made by his creatures to the ideal conception embodied in them, every increase in any of their capabilities of comprehension, of action, or of enjoyment.

Este cañón puede matar, este cañón puede destruir - y la convicción de haber creado un peligro obediente y mortal me enajenaba de alegría.

Il futuro è nostro, per prepotenza di lavoro. Creeremo la nostra letteratura, non conversando continuamente di letteratura, ma scrivendo in orgogliosa solitudine libri che avranno la violenza di un gancio alla mandibola. Sì, un libro dopo l'altro, e "che gli eunuchi sbuffino pure".

God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science.

Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.

Todo nace en el corazón como de la nada nace el gusano en el corazón de la manzana.

Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work.

Ella pone miles de huevos.

Then the gods realized they must create substitutes for themselves: men. But how? For them to be truly alive, a god must die.

Being in the moment of creating produces a meditative space where you can just lose yourself.

Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet.

acts of forgiveness contribute to one's sense of trust in oneself and the potential of others; they contribute to a human spirit that is fundamentally hopeful and optimistic rather than pessimistic or defeated; they contribute to knowing oneself and others as potentially powerful people who can choose to lovingly create, versus seeing humans as basically self-ish, destructive and sinners

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Architecture led to the vanishing point which led to architecture.

architecture begins and ends in pictures…

You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us."     He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history.

History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.' He smiled enigmatically. 'The future is another kind of history.

Then as now he created reality around himself, bringing order and peace to a small island of warm firelight and the simple smell of hearth bread cooking.

Tú creas posibilidades. Mientras existas se puede cambiar el futuro.

We dream of carving our dragon.

He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history.

We dream of carving dragons

History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.