Creation Of Man Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?

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.