“The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.” WorldNeedsMeanDoeStillsReasonWholeUseLyingPurposeOrderNaturalWalksCreationLessonsGoodnessRemainsWineEnvironmentalDelightSomewhere ElsePietyMushrooms Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.” MenFirstsWholeFactsAmericaLyingHistoryCreationThousandForestsBritainRomeEgyptGreeceEncyclopediaAcornsGreece And Rome Book:Twelve Essays Source: Twelve Essays
“Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.” MenFormLyingWomenCreationSweetBlessingHighestBlessedVirginsMaidens Author:Hildegard of Bingen
“I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.” IfsLightLyingBlackDarkAtheismCreationGeniusWorshipCome UpProofSavagesOutrageBenevolentProof Of GodGood Lies Author:Gary Numan
“Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.” FeelingsLyingImaginationAbilitySecretCreationSourceAbundanceLinkedExpressing Feelings Author:Anais Nin
“In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.” WayRealityAgeJoyLyingDiesGamesLostCausesLosesCreationProjectsAbsolutesVideoObsessionBreathingMotiveScoreJoyfulSheerFeedbackSheer JoyAbsolute LoveFalse Reality Author:Donald Miller
“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.” HumansSoulLightBeautifulLyingSidesBeautySunCreationMaterialsSourceCallingElementsInvestingLovelyPoeticHuman SoulHue Author:Giuseppe Mazzini
“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.” MenAgeLyingDiesLanguageAbilityDogCreationKingsDiseaseCatClaimsCancerSpreadCowsBiblicalRatsPlagueContagiousDiabetesMammalsProdigiousSpoken Language Author:Fernando Vallejo