Best 1551 quotes in «creation quotes» category

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.

Rather than beautifying one’s own creation, make better the environment that surrounds it.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

Pure energy is the father of creation.

Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, calls [Betsy] DeVos the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of the U.S. Department of Education nearly 40 years ago.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.

Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.