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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
-Anais Nin
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
-Jos
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Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.
-Qur'an
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
-John Ruskin
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
-Carl Sagan
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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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The innermost meaning of sacrifice is the annihilation of the finite just because it is finite. In order to demonstrate that this is the only purpose, the most noble and beautiful must be chosen; above all, man, the fulfillment of the earth. Human sacrifices are the most natural sacrifices. Man, however, is more than the fulfillment of the earth; he is reasonable, and reason is free and nothing but an eternal self-determination toward the infinite. Thus man can sacrifice only himself, and that is what he does in the omnipresent sanctissimum of which the masses are not aware. All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. The meaning of divine creation is primarily revealed in the enthusiasm of annihilation. Only in the throes of death is the spark of eternal life ignited.
-Friedrich Von Schlegel
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
-Henry Wheeler Shaw
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
-Thomas Szasz
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None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
-Torquato Tasso
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
-Jeremy Taylor
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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.
-Mark Twain
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
-Geri Weitzman
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Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful so compelling that when-in a decade, a century, a millennium-- we grasp it, we will say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How can we have been so blind for so long?
-John Wheeler
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Books about Creation
