Their Origin Quotes
41 quotes by 39 authors
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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
— Thomas de Quincey
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Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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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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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
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
— Carl Jung
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade…
— Ludwig von Mises
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
— Cesare Pavese
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Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
— Ivan Pavlov
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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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But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes…
— Stanley Milgram
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If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India,…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
— Laozi
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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
— Robert Collier
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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing…
— Thomas Paine
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It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.
— Vladimir Putin
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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
— Arthur Eddington
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Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings…
— Goldwin Smith
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Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin…
— John Stuart Mill
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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and…
— Oscar Wilde
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