Quotes About Creation

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Images discovered by men evolve slowly, painfully; hence Jacques Bousquet's profound remark: A new image costs humanity as much labor as a new characteristic costs a plant.

The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life.

It is not human nature to dominate, but to create. Yes, humankind falters every now and then, but you know how to learn from your past mistakes. You've done it before, and you can do it again. I believe that ultimately, you will create a civilization that preserves and protects even as it grows. Do you understand? The spirits will always have a place in this world, as long as you -- and humans like you -- create a place for us. - Lady Tienhai, Guardian Spirit/Queen

I am the Mother of Faces. Through me, separateness came into the world. Through me, cam identity. The one became the many.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. [...] We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

I waded out of the sea while loving it still, even as I had earlier dropped from the stars while loving them; and in truth there is no place in Briah that is not lovely when it no longer holds the threat of death, save for the places men have made so.

We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table.

he imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world.

Surely the Pancreator knows all mysteries. He spoke the long word that is our Universe and few things happen that are not part of that word.

The forest had set its own dead there as well, stumps and limbs that time had turned to stone, so that I wondered as I descended, if it might not be that Urth is not, as we assume, older than her daughters the trees, and imagined them growing in the emptiness before the face of the sun, tree clinging to tree with tangled roots and interlacing twigs until at last their accumulation became our Urth, and they only the nap of her garment.

For a few minutes it didn't matter what anyone thought of me. I have created something that didn't exist the day before, from a place that didn't belong to anyone but me.

The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...

Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye, Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye, So sende myght to make in som comedye! But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie, But subgit be to alle poesye; And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace.

Di Stefano was manufactured on earth, Pele was made in heaven.

Das Nichts hat sich ermordet, die Schöpfung ist seine Wunde, wir sind seine Blutstropfen, die Welt ist das Grab, worin es fault.

Die Welt ist das Chaos. Das Nichts ist der zu gebärende Weltgott.

Logiikka pitää näin ymmärtää puhtaan järjen järjestelmänä, puhtaan ajatuksen valtakuntana. Tämä valtakunta on totuus sinänsä ja itselleen, ilman verhoa. Asia voidaan siksi ilmaista niin, että tämä sisältö on Jumalan esitystä sellaisena kuin hän on ikuisessa olemuksessaan ennen luonnon ja äärellisen hengen luomista.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.