Origin Quotes

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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model... — Giorgio Vasari
It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always… — Adolf Hitler
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his… — Adam Sedgwick
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all… — William Whewell
I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story. — Joey Comeau
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social… — William Hurrell Mallock
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. — Ernst Mach
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source. — Eckhart Tolle
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or… — Steven Pinker
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would… — Bertrand Russell
The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity. — Lou Henry Hoover
My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from… — Antony Flew
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by… — Roy Ayers
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin,… — Iain Pears
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from… — W. R. Thompson
The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law. — William of Auxerre

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