(851 quotes found)
“One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.”
Albert Pike
“Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .”
Vladimir Nabokov
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.”
Norman O. Brown
“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”
Marquis De Sade
“The creation is as God's family; for its sustenance is from Him: therefore the most beloved unto God is the person who doeth good to God's family”
Muhammad
“Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.”
Kabbalah
“However far-reaching our intellectual achievements and however advanced our knowledge of Creation, without faith and a sense of our own spirituality there is only isolation and despair, and the human race is a lost cause”
Jane Hawking
“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
Avram Noam Chomsky
“These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in”
Thomas Paine
