Origin Quotes

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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian… — Philip Zimbardo
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. — Frans de Waal
Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during… — Anurag Kashyap
As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning… — David Hume
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?… — Saul Bellow
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member… — Bill Watterson
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and… — Walt Whitman
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to oneâ€™s eye, it may open in its center… — Bruno Schulz
A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless… — Ayn Rand
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to… — William S. Burroughs
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with… — Abraham Lincoln
Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This… — Carl Jung
This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling… — Denis Johnson
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that… — Peter Kropotkin
â€¦Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or… — Jean Baudrillard
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all… — Rabindranath Tagore

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