Quotes About Creation

Tienes el poder de crear. Tu poder es tan fuerte que cualquier cosa que decidas creer se convierte en realidad. Te creas a ti mismo, sea lo que sea que creas que eres. Eres como eres porque eso es lo que crees sobre ti mismo. Toda tu realidad, todo lo que crees, es fruto de tu propia creación. Tienes el mismo poder que cualquier otro ser humano en el mundo.

But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.

Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.

Our words create us, from one moment to the next. When you lie, it's that act of self-creation that's sabotaged and corrupted. Lucifer, Book 3, preface

Air, meskipun ia menggenang dan mengalir dan tak memiliki bentuk sendiri, adalah roda tempat kita dibentuk.

The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill.

God is the STRUCTURE of Life, not the Narrative.

It's a fiendishly difficult thing to do because paper that has been written on doesn't burn easily.

Manuscripts do not burn.

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

Manuscripts don't burn

There isn't a single eastern religion," said Berlioz, "in which, as a rule, a chaste virgin doesn't give birth to a god. And without inventing anything new, in exactly the same way, the Christians created their Jesus, who in reality never actually lived. And it's on that the main emphasis needs to be put...

Bulgakov began work on the first version of the novel early in 1929, or possibly at the end of 1928.

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born and have tasted life and declare it so good that is merits being duplicated.

Art arises from sources other than logic. (p.32)

By writing books, a man turns into a universe.

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

En el mismo comienzo del Génesis está escrito que Dios creó al hombre para confiarle el dominio sobre los pájaros, los peces y los animales. Claro que el Génesis fue escrito por un hombre y no por un caballo. No hay seguridad alguna de que Dios haya confiado efectivamente al hombre el dominio de otros seres. Más bien parece que el hombre inventó a Dios para convertir en sagrado el dominio sobre la vaca y el caballo, que había usurpado.

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the Creator of Man.

God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.