Quotes About Origin

The East is where things begin, my mother once told me, the direction from which the sun rises, where the wind comes from.

Una persona ha de reflexionar sobre el origen de las cosas. Cada comienzo conduce a un fin determinado.

Est un être humain tout être né de deux êtres humains

If the series of pilgrimages toward understanding our actual circumstances in the universe, the origin of life, and the laws of nature are not spiritual quests, then I don't know what could be. I

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

It was just the lightest dusting, and another person might have mistaken it for something else. But I knew where I came from. No matter where I was, or what got me there, I would always feel at home when I touched sand.

Where Annie came from, one assumed the worst and worked backwards from there.

This is the world as it is. This is where you start.

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

In the Beginning was the Mind'.

They are not from outer space. There is no need for them to be. They have always been here.

out of the following lineage and circumstances: from the seed of the woman (any possible man).

The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.

The origin of the Church's holiness, as we have seen, is entirely outside itself; the consequences of this are that, first, it is manifest as a hearing of the gospel's promise and command, and, second, that its sign is penance, not perfection.

We have no word for this darkness. It is not night and it is not ignorance. From time to time we all cross this darkness, seeing everything: so much everything that we can distinguish nothing. You know it, Marisa, better than I. It's the interior from which everything came.

The fact that emotional feeling can be experienced during sleep is a reminder that not all processes having an emotional feeling phase originate in the environment.

First, it is important to remember that the origin of Freud's model lay, not in his clinical work with patients, but in ideas he had learned previously from his teachers—the physiologist Brücke, the psychiatrist Meynert, and the physician Breuer.

Can it be that all of physics—and, indeed, all of science—is based on creating all the matter in the universe from a dozen objects with totally random mass values, while no one has the faintest idea about their origin?

The universe has been around for 13.8 billion years and

Our present biosphere is the outcome of about 4 billion years of evolution, and we can trace cosmic history right back to a Big Bang that happened about 13.7 billion years ago.

Begin anywhere.

And this is   the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, [124] and   dared to try what he was able to do.