creation quotes

• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. (George Bernard Shaw) [imagination/creation/desire/willpower]
• The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. (Charles Dickens) [construction/creation/thing/thing]
• Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso) [creation/destruction]
• Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. (John Updike) [creation]
• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous. ( Aristotle) [society/state/creation/state]
• I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. (Roland Barthes) [think/creation/pleasure]
• Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. (Claude M. Bristol) [creation/thinking/think]
• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. (Joyce Cary) [evil/spirit/creation/change]
• Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [truth/creation/human/mind]
• The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. (Charles Dickens) [construction/creation/thing/thing]
• Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind. (Albert Einstein) [impressions/creation/human/mind]
• The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [creation]
• A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [creation/child/solitude]
• A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. (Oliver Goldsmith) [creation]
• In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. (Hermann Hesse) [spirit/creation]
• It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots. (Victor Hugo) [creation/human/absurd/religion]
• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. (Victor Hugo) [think/eyes/creation]
• The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. (Claude Levi-Strauss) [phenomenon/creation/cities/integration]
• 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 Christoph Lichtenberg) [creation/willpower]
• The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation. (John Locke) [wisdom/power/creation]
• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. (Henry Miller) [creation/faith/enthusiasm]
• Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso) [creation/destruction]
• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. (Man Ray) [creation/desire/reproduction/human]
• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. (Salman Rushdie) [books/creation]
• The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. (John Ruskin) [sky/creation/nature]
• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. (Albert Schweitzer) [creation]
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. (George Bernard Shaw) [imagination/creation/desire/willpower]
• Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. (John Updike) [creation]
• Freedom comes when you learn to let go. Creation comes when you learn to say no ( Madonna) [creation]
• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! (Courtney Love) [creation/music]
• If the greatest artwork in life is the creation of who you are, then it's good to apprentice to a good therapist. (David Duchovny) [life/creation]

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