Quotes About Creation

Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him.

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man's self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.

The modern history of capital dates from the creation in the 16th century of a world-embracing commerce and a world-embracing market.

Man makes religion, religion does not make Man

Wie niet liever met eigen krachten een eigen wereld bouwt, de schepper van een wereld is, dan eeuwig in zijn eigen schulp te blijven, die is door de geest met een banvloek getroffen, met een interdict, maar in omgekeerde betekenis: hij is verjaagd uit het heiligdom van de geest, verstoken van de eeuwige luxe van de geest, en gedoemd om wiegeliedjes te zingen over zijn eigen privé-gelukzaligheid en daar 's nachts van zichzelf te dromen.

They're limited edition,' she said. 'Listen,' I said 'they're not limited enough. These shouldn't have been made at all.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.

If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)

Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination. Nothing will come of nothing unless it's the beginning of the world. This is how it begins, with the word and the word is life. The void is transformed by a gigantic firecracker allowing time to dawn and imagination to begin.

words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

If Bertie was a god (a favourite fantasy), she would be manufacturing things there was a shortage of - bees, tigers, dormice - not flip-flops and phone covers and toothpaste.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

Men are idol factories.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.