Origin Quotes

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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau
love as a passionâ€”it is our European specialtyâ€”must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. — Oscar Wilde
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. — Stephen Jay Gould
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will… — Bertrand Russell
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody… — Christopher Hitchens
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You are like nobody since I love you" -Pablo Neruda This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love… — John O'Donohue
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin… — Dale Carnegie
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need… — J M Coetzee
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. — Roland Barthes
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin. — Stanley Kunitz
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… — Jack Kerouac
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not… — Muhammad Yunus
Doubt is the origin of wisdom — Rene Descartes
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is â€˜doingâ€™ his… — C.S. Lewis
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment… — Martin Buber

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