Origin Quotes

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.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

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.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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.

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.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

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.

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

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.

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

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.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

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.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

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 origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.