Best 1551 quotes in «creation quotes» category

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect.

The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the top rate then in 1913, was 7 percent. Woodrow Wilson had a big ceremony and said, "I'm delighted to be president at the creation of this popular new tax.

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts.

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.

The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

The more I got to knew about Paganism the more Pagan I became, so to say, but I didn't really know enough until after the creation of Burzum.

The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!

The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The People of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of mankind concerning the truth, and the most merciful of the creation towards the rest of creation.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man. . .

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

There is creation in the eye.