Origin Quotes

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

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 and laissez faire.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.