Quotes About Creation

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one's self endlessly.

psychical life is neither unity nor multiplicity, that it transcends both the mechanical and the intellectual, mechanism and finalism having meaning only where there is "distinct multiplicity," "spatiality," and consequently assemblage of pre-existing parts: "real duration" signifies both undivided continuity and creation.

Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad

In realtà, ogni momento della nostra vita è creazione; per un essere cosciente, "esistere" significa cambiare; cambiare nel maturarsi; e maturarsi nel creare se stesso all'infinito.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

La fièvre fit plus d'animaux que les ovaires n'en firent jamais.

First man knows, then he understands, last he sees, or thinks he sees, and embroiders. In the same way the true poet creates, then understands...sometimes.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

And when I stood there, high over everything, and was hanging the wreath over the vane, I said to him: Hear me now, thou Mighty One! From this day forward, I will be a free builder—I too, in my sphere—just as thou in thine. I will never more build churches for thee—only homes for human beings.

The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that they make sublime, He feels and sees that Nature knows Nothing of time in what she does, But has a leisure infinite Wherein to do her work aright.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

On many days, doing what matters most will not be easy. It is not supposed to be. God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. We rejoiced to know the test would be one of faithful obedience even when it would not be easy.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

El presente sólo se forma del pasado, y lo que se encuentra en el efecto estaba ya en la causa.

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.