Top 1200 Creation Myths Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

Among this country's enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell ourselves that money cannot buy happiness, but what is incontrovertible is that money buys stuff, and if stuff makes you happy, well, complete the syllogism.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn't enough.

The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.

We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

I like creation even if the process is always a bit difficult.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

There is no light greater than truth and it shines at the heart of all creation.

I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.

'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.