Creation Of Man Quotes

• In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Actors, Evolution

  Henry Miller (1978). “Quiet days in Clichy and The world of sex: two books”, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Done, Evolution

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• Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

  Naum Gabo

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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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

  Passion, Men, Darkness

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109

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• The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, World, Labor

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

  Clarence Day

  Book, Reading, Men

  Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”

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• At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh

  Henry B. Eyring

  Marriage, Mother, Father

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• In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

  R. H. Barlow

  Dream, Lying, Men

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

  Clarence Day

  Book, Fall, Heart

  "The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend". Book by Clarence day, 1920.

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• The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Would Be, Painful

  "The Immoralist".

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• The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

  Peter Greenaway

  Humble, Men, Numbers

  "Fear of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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• Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

  David Ogilvy

  Education, Men, Oxford

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• When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Men, Light, Years

  Elijah Muhammad (2008). “The Divine Sayings of Elijah Muhammad Volumes 1, 2 and 3”, p.17, Elijah Muhammad Books

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• The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Reality, Men

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

  Primo Levi

  Gymnastics, Men, Keys

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• Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 07, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 140, archive.org. 1902.

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• Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Men, History

  Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.4

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• Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

  Lytton Strachey

  Writing, Men, Language

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• The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

  Eliphas Levi

  Men, Perfect, Great Work

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

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• All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

  Dennis Prager

  Reading, Biblical, Men

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.39, Creators Publishing

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