Quotes About Origin

I always feel that art springs more from dirt than from fine intentions: given the choice, I put my trust in dirt.

In the Dhammap?da, happiness and unhappiness are said to originate in the mind: 'Speak or act with a corrupted mind, And suffering follows As the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. … Speak or act with a peaceful mind, And happiness follows Like a never-departing shadow.

Gerald Schroeder points out that the existence of conditions favorable to life still does not explain how life itself originated. Life was able to survive only because of favorable conditions on our planet. But there is no law of nature that instructs matter to produce end-directed, self-replicating entities.

The cat was created when the lion sneezed.

One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes.

Everything has an origin in it, and animals are no exception.

Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.

A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be.

A man is the origin of his action.

Este problema, hora es ya de revelarlo, no era otro que el origen del pensamiento.

I'm cummin' round more'n'more to Your earliest=Levanthine pointa view, Dan, >that the world may well have originated less from a creative and far more from a destructive principle< ... - : aren't we ruled=t'day by a wind that produces great lethargy (&thirst)?...<

In interpreting a work of art, we draw upon our own aims and endeavors, inform it with a meaning that has its origin in our own ways of life and thought. In a word, any art that really affects us becomes to that extent modern art.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from - I cannot name it. But I am separated.

You can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of a boy.

If by some unimaginable process works of beauty could be produced by machinery, as a symmetrical color pattern is produced by a kaleidoscope, we might think them beautiful till we knew their origin, after which we should be rather disposed to describe them as ingenious.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

Everything about my brand is where I am from like the title of my album 'Queen of Da Souf'... I always credit my city because that is my brand.

Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.

Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world or something different from it?'

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.