Quotes About Creation

God, then, did not find in Himself any reason for creating. If the reason for creation were to be found in the nature of the Absolute, there would be no creation. The existence of the world is therefore irrational, for what can be more irrational than the idea of something added to perfection? Nevertheless the world exists. Reality is not rational, it is superior to reason.

Certain of the angels having fallen, God made men, that they might take their vacated places.

The notion of the first man having been of both sexes till the separation, was very common. He was said to have been male on the right side and female on the left, and that one half of him was removed to constitute Eve, but that the complete man consists of both sexes.

That Eve was Adam's second wife was a common Rabbinic speculation; certain of the commentators on Genesis having adopted this view to account for the double account of the creation of woman in the sacred text--first in Genesis i. 27, and secondly in Genesis ii. 18; and they say that Adam's first wife was named Lilith, but she was expelled from Eden, and after her expulsion Eve was created.

Properly speaking, the name of God is not to be given to the Absolute before creation; the Absolute is the only philosophical name admissible, and that is unsatisfactory, for it is negative; but the idea of God before matter was must be incomprehensible by material beings.

To create is to love, to will the creature for itself. The creature is therefore willed as its own end. God wills that the creature should be. He wills it in the interest of the creature. He wills its good, and its good consists in the realization of its being.

The only knowledge man has of his thoughts is by their expression, consequently, every material being that can be conceived by the mind exists or can exist . He may imagine what is incongruous, as the sphinx. But his imagination is a piecing together of realities, not a creation out of nothing.

What is all creation but an aspiration towards what it presupposes, the Infinite, from the atom to the globes that revolve in space, from the mineral to the man?

Our sorrows are the golden grain Of the great reaper--Art.

When you focus on the problems, you get more of the same. What you focus on you create.

human beings glorify God by achieving much more than survival. We glorify Him by understanding and ruling over the creation and then producing more and more wonderful goods from it for our enjoyment, with thanksgiving to God.

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

Why did God create Adam before he created Eve? Because he didn't want anyone telling him how to make Adam.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Lo que queremos hacer es crear una conexión entre el mundo que percibimos con nuestros sentidos y el mundo del arte, el de los muertos, el que no podemos ver.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

The known plane is God's creation, fallen out of its union with Him, and therefore the world of the flesh needing redemption, the world of men, and of time, and of things -- our world. This known plane is intersected by another plane that is unknown -- the world of the Father, of the Primal Creation, and of the final Redemption. The relation between us and God, between this world and His world presses for recognition, but the line of intersection is not self-evident.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.

Si existiese un dios o algún ser omnisciente, este ser no podría forjar absolutamente ficción alguna

En la Sustancia (en Dios), esencia, existencia y potencia productiva quedan estrictamente identificadas, de manera que la Sustancia (Dios), lejos de crear todo lo que es, lo produce en y desde sí misma:

Do not think like a human. You have the ability within you to create anything you wish. Truth is, you are all highly powerful entities walking this planet, disguised as simple biological beings & the disguise fools everyone -- even yourself.

The greatest gift creation has given to all of you is that life is fundamentally meaningless. That means it has no built-in meaning. What that also means is, you were designed to give it the meaning you prefer to give it. And the meaning you give it will utterly determine how you experience it.

Stop arguing with creation.