“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
“This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.” WholeUniverseImaginationCreationResearchDiscoveryRemainsSpiteSheerGrandeurRiddleVastnessScientific Knowledge Author:Meher Baba
“As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.” ArtTechnologyCreationRemainsArchitectureDrawingPace Author:Prince Charles
“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” FirstsHumansArtGodFormArtistSpeakImaginationBehindsExistenceMysteryCryCreationMaterialsPersonalityRemainsMoodInvisibleNarrativeDramaticAccomplishedAestheticIndifferentAestheticsFluidRefinedFingernailsCadenceHuman ImaginationHandiwork Author:James Joyce
“Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?” MenArtPurposeBeautyCreationLateArt IsTestsRemainsRewardsAppearanceContemporaryWorks Of ArtIndicationEquilibriumMan And Nature Author:Brassai
“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.” PeopleIfsKindMeanStatesSpeakMoralDemocracyGroupsCreationAuthorityRemainsDemocraticBottomViolentAll KindsOppressionCapitalistFalsehoodOrganizePersuasionHostileAnarchismBourgeoisSmall GroupsPacifist Author:Jacques Ellul
“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” ArtArtistBehindsExistenceCreationRemainsInvisibleYoung ManIndifferentRefinedRefiningFingernailsHandiwork Author:James Joyce
“In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.” PeopleWantBigsSchoolJobsYoungChallengesCreationRight NowRemainsPreoccupationJob CreationBig Challenges Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.” MindShowsEyeFailingMissingCreationEssentialsAppreciateRemainsSensesRealmsTunes Book:The Science of Being and Art of Living Source: The Science of Being and Art of Living
“We could cope—the world could cope—with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside his disciples' minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with a Jesus who comes out of the tomb, who inaugurates God's new creation right in the middle of the old one.” WorldMindHeartIdeasJesusWonderfulMiddleCreationRemainsDiscipleHeart And MindTombs Author:N. T. Wright
“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.” GuyMusicCreationDramaEssentialsEatingDestructionRemainsGuitarTensionCheeseCompositionImprovisationGood GuyMaintenanceCottagesConsonantsCreation And Destruction Author:Frank Zappa
“Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.” MenMayStillsDifferentFormDeathDyingCreationBirthShapesInnovationRemainsMovedCeaseNew BeginningsAssuredInventorImpermanenceGreat Inventors Book:Metamorphoses Source: Metamorphoses
“But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.” IfsNeedsShouldHumansStillsAbleEarthLeftExistenceLandCreationEgoModelsRemainsPressesKillingCompromiseLiberationFootstepsHuman ExistenceBlundersConcessionsSecond BestOptimum Author:Thomas Ligotti