Quotes About Creation

The fish are always selling well. They are the only one of God's creatures that never disappoints.

We shall never shake ourselves clear from the debts of the past and break into a definitely larger period except by the energetic creation of new wealth.

In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. 'To set' means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.

From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as the container in the shape of a containing vessel. The jug's void determines all the handling in the process of making the vessel. The vessel's thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.

Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.

Y qué sería del vacío del espacio? Con demasiada frecuencia, el vacío aparece tan sólo como una falta. El vacío pasa entonces por una falta de algo que llene los espacios huecos y los intersticios. Sin embargo, el vacío está presumiblemente hermanado con el carácter peculiar del lugar y, por ello, no es un echar en falta, sino un producir.

Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create. What we find when we enter these mortal plains is existence; but existence is the raw material out of which all life must be created. A productive and happy life is not something that you find; it is something that you make. And so the ability of Negroes and whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found ready-made; it must be created by the fact of contact.

We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying.

Every time we look at each other or talk to each other as men and women, we should remember that the person we are talking to is a creature of God who is more like God than anything else in the universe, and men and women share that status equally.1

Men were created to reflect the strength, love, and self-sacrifice of Christ. Women were created to reflect the responsiveness, grace, and beauty of the bride He redeemed. And marriage was created to reflect the covenant union of Christ and His bride.

sculpting is really a long series of decisions. When you make good ones, you have a product you like. When you make a bad one, you toss it and start again. And there are always lots of bad decisions. But the good ones are worth waiting for.

L'homme c'est rien, l'oeuvre c'est tout»

El hombre no es nada, la obra lo es todo.

Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf, Denn zum wiirdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.

But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,--or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.

a universe implies the existence of a universe maker, and

The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting

Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to Georges Sand.

L'acqua si scava la strada attraverso la pietra, e quando è intrappolata, l'acqua si crea un nuovo varco. L'acqua è potente: spegne il fuoco, scava la pietra, distrugge il ferro.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.

but since every created being is ultimately an emanation of God, partaking of His Essence in a measure diminishing with distance, the soul will always strive upward, to its source.

The chain, thus unified, now reached from God's throne down to the meanest worm.