Quotes About Origin

The most basic office we hold is indeed that of divine image. Respect for authority must begin with this authoritative office, in which all the other offices find their focus and point of origin. This indeed is the grain of truth to be found in the contemporary ideology of human rights, as manifested in both practical jurisprudence and popular culture.

In the end, we begin.

The joy of our success can only be validated by the memory of our origin.

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Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

las palabras nunca son fruto del azar. Que todas tienen un pasado, una especie de genética que las delata. —Eso es lo que estudia la etimología...

This morning chases a scattered rhyme; this moment flows toward its ambivalent source.

America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.

That intersection between dream and reality is what I am attempting to capture here, akin though it is to trying to pinpoint the origin of the Iliad, or what would later become the Roman Empire, or Michelangelo's Moses, or the theory of gravitation. Nonetheless,

Un timp care curgea în sens contrar ?i care nu înceta niciodat? s? urce spre izvoarele sale. Un spa?iu al c?rui centru era acest leag?n al familiei spre care moartea ne aducea înapoi.

Beauty has no other origin than a wound, unique, different for each person, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps in himself, that he preserves and to which he withdraws when he wants to leave the world for a temporary but profound solitude.

She knew that she had brought him the very safety and sense of belonging that was so important for a child, but which he had never experienced in his family of origin.

Ultimate Reality is itself multiplicity, diversity. It is a waste of energy to strive to explain the world and its origin, which only diverts us from the essential Experience.

The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.

El sesgo de la víctima identificable, por humano que sea, afecta a las políticas públicas; como dice el aforismo (con frecuencia atribuido a Stalin, pero de origen dudoso), «la muerte de un hombre es una tragedia; la de un millón de hombres, una estadística».

I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

Her screams were not only a sign of her inner brokenness, darkness, and anguish but also a cry for help. Difficult as it is for us to accept and come to terms with this idea, I believe that every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

There are many theories about how tapas came to refer to food. Some believe early tapas were slices of bread or cheese placed on top of drinks.

C'est le premier matin du monde.

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

That love was God's love. Where do you think love comes from? It comes from God, and it comes through other people." I think about this. Usually I walk around thinking of love as a kind of gravity. Just one of those laws of nature, a force that has its way with you. I don't tend to wonder where the law might have come from.

This valley I thought was dead taught me why the origin of the world is in the wind. I can not only hear this cosmic whirlwind, I can see it...I think I'm seeing the moment when the world began with a storm.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)