Origin Quotes

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But I also assert that most of us don't look for miracles, don't recognize them for what they really are, and don't really believe them… — Mary C. Neal
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have… — Francois Arago
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of… — Isaac Newton
A man is the origin of his action. — Aristotle
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous… — Baron de Montesquieu
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. — Thomas de Quincey
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole… — James Russell Lowell
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the… — Wallace Stevens
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. — Simone de Beauvoir
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. — Gaston Bachelard
It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting… — Charles Darwin
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and… — Karl Barth
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,… — Joshua Reynolds
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual… — Emanuel Swedenborg
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. — Philip Johnson
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A… — Adolf Loos
We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their… — Francis Schaeffer

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