Origin Quotes

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A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart,… — Walter J. Phillips
I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance… — Erasmus Darwin
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with… — Theodore Roosevelt
To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind. — Ernest Klein
If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we… — David
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the… — John Muir
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in… — Pope Clement I
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,… — Thomas Paine
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they… — Henry Adams
When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more… — Vladimir Lenin
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. — Olga Broumas
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And… — Nikolai Berdyaev
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting… — Frank B. Salisbury
The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it… — John Quincy Adams
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far… — Paul Davies
I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character. — Keri Russell
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey

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