"A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."

Creation, Imagination, Design, Humanity

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"A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."

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"The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation."

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"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."

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"That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

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"Everything in existence was gotten from the currency of time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"A photo is a creation."

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"Sanity is madness put to good use."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!"

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"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

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"The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself."

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"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

Freedom

"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."

Media

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

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"Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases."

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"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions."

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"Machinery which is not used is not capital."

Economics

"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."

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"Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society.But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money."

Alienation