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

  Voltaire

  Dream, Watches, World

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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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• The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Moving, Humanity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Two, World, Earth

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.66, Oxford University Press

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• Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

  Johannes Kepler

  God, Taken, Eye

  Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (1997). “The Harmony of the World”, p.304, American Philosophical Society

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• The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.

  John Constable

  Summer, Art, June

  John Constable, Anne Gray, Dr, John Gage, Conal Shields, Ann Galbally (2006). “Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky”

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• Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

  Victor Hugo

  Determination, Fall, Science

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote gloom and evil. Rather, it's about the inscrutability of the embryonic state; the obscure chaos that reigns before germination.

  Rob Brezsny

  Prayer, Writing, Mean

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.194, Frog Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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