Origin Quotes

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.