#eat

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time. ↗

— Gary Malone

#creationism #religion #religious-fundamentalism #science #stupidity

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#happiness #creation

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#creation

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#creative #darkness #decide #destructive #every

A great man is always willing to be little. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #humbleness #humility #modesty #size

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#simplicity #simplicity

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gatsby #simplicity

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#nations #politics #creation

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#average #mediocrity #creation

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. ↗

— Plato

#poets #themselves #things #understand #utter