Creation Of The World Quotes

• Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Wine, Tyrants, World

  William Lloyd Garrison (1885). “The Story of his Life”

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• What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Choices

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• The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Watches, World

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• There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Answers, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.328

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  The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

  Samuel Beckett

  World, Creation, All Time

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• There is an idea in Kabbalah that the creation of the world is created through space. God is an ever present Being, and in order for anything outside of Him to exist, like this world for example, there needs to be what's called a TumTum[a], or a withdrawal of Godly-like. And that withdrawal happens not by connection but actually by separation. Conflict. And in the gap of that conflict is where the world is situated. That's where the world is created and lived.

  Matisyahu

  Godly, Space, Order

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• How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Believe, World

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• It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

  James Boswell

  Years, World, Spirit

  James Boswell, John Wilson Croker, John Wright (1839). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides”, p.59

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• The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

  Marcel Proust

  World, Creation

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4455, Delphi Classics

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• I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, War, America

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.118, Stackpole Books

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• The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Trying, Six

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

  Laurence Sterne

  Silly, Men, World

  Tristram Shandy bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759 - 1767)

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• God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, World, Reason

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• Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Reading, Two, Perception

  "The Destiny of Doris: A Travel-story of Three Continents" by Julius Chambers, (Preface), 1914.

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• If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

  Kyle Minor

  Land, Life And Death, Southern

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.

  Maren Elwood

  Light, Long, Giving

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• When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

  John Calvin

  Men, Done, World

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• Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Opinion, Creation

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.214, Vintage

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• It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Dream, Romance, Quality

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

  Richard Baxter

  World, Paganism, Chance

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• All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.

  William Winwood Reade

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.179

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• Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

  Marcel Marceau

  Religious, Father, Practice

  The Lantern Interview, April 5, 2001.

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• The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, World, Creation

  John Quincy Adams (1850). “Letters by John Quincy Adams, on the Study of the Bible”, p.20

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• We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

  Anne Carson

  World, Creation

  "Magical thinking" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Laughter, Silly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.145, OUP Oxford

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