Quotes About Origination

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

the river from which one draws water is one way of identifying an individual

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

His earthly sojourn was not an origination, but a visitation.

We understand nature as source when we understand ourselves as source. We abandon all attempts at an explanation of nature when we see that we cannot be explained, when our own self-origination cannot be stated as fact. We behold the irreducible otherness of nature when we behold ourselves as its other.

I have always taught that things arise due to the conjunction of causes and conditions not that they arise without a cause.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

What is clearest, most memorable and important about art is its coming into being, and the world's best works of art, while telling of very diverse matters, are really telling about their birth.

In fact, from inside the system, the algorithms and mathematical formulae by which the world comes to be assessed become, ultimately, not just measures of value, but the source of value itself.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.

Everything is made, but only people make things. I mean, how can a thing exist if it isn't made ? How can a shape be a shape if it isn't shaped ?

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Mater artium necessitas [Necessity is the mother of invention].

Gasman' was something I wrote on a beer mat in a pub.