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Quotes About Creation

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
~ Jose Rizal
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.
~ Eddie Murphy
Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.
~ Charles Darwin
This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.
~ Nahmanides
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
~ Chinua Achebe
A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
~ Og Mandino
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
~ I. F. Stone
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
It was man who first made men believe in gods.
~ Critias
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
~ Eugene Ionesco
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
~ Otl Aicher
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
~ Pythagoras
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
~ Robert Burns
I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.
~ John Clare
God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
~ Little Richard
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.
~ Fernand Leger
The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.
~ Leopold Kronecker
Man created God, not God, man
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.
~ Claude M. Bristol
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
~ Thomas A. Edison