Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Evolution is evolution - and it's happened before us and will continue after we're gone. But, what's taking place now is much… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, when Twaslitri (the Divine Artificer) came to the creation of woman he found that he had exhausted his materials… — F W Bain Copy Share Image
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
"It is finished" means that Jesus had accomplished all that God's mission had sent him to do. It did not merely mean… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The heart is God's most magnificent creation, and the prize over which he fights the kingdom of darkness. Now consider this -… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Christianity explains why truth is not merely a human construction. The world is not a creation of my own mind. It is… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image