Creation And Destruction Quotes

• Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.

  Savitri Devi

  Eye, Creation, Destruction

  Savitri Devi, G. D. Savarkar (1939). “A Warning to the Hindus”

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• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Design, Firsts

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• Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

  Amish Tripathi

  Journey, Two, Next

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• The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

  Marquis de Sade

  Nature, Reality, Creation

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

  Fritjof Capra

  Energy, Physics, Creation

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Drama, Guitar

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• The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

  Frederick Franck

  Doe, Void, Creation

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• At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more.

  Carl Zimmer

  Origin Of Life, Two, Long

  Carl Zimmer (2012). “A Planet of Viruses”, p.94, University of Chicago Press

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• Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.

  Fritjof Capra

  Essence, Shiva, Matter

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• Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Views, Two, Beginnings And Ends

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