Quotes About Origin

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

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 cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

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.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them?

My poems - they sprang from the depths of my being.

I am the philosophy before any philosopher.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.