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Creation Of Man Quotes

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

Eliphas Levi
Men, Creation Of Man, Perfect
Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Lytton Strachey
Writing, Men, Creation Of Man

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Charles Lyell
Science, Men, Creation Of Man
Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.4

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

Karl Marx
Men, Creation Of Man, World
Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.113, Courier Corporation

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Peter Greenaway
Humble, Men, Creation Of Man
"Fear of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin
Passion, Men, Creation Of Man
John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Henry Miller
Men, Creation Of Man, Actors
Henry Miller (1978). “Quiet days in Clichy and The world of sex: two books”, Atlantic Monthly Press

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Christopher Morley
Men, Creation Of Man, Done

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

Primo Levi
Gymnastics, Men, Creation Of Man

Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

David Ogilvy
Education, Men, Creation Of Man

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Andre Gide
Men, Creation Of Man, Would Be
"The Immoralist".

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