Quotes About Origin

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. In this manner of its origin lies its true estimate: there is no other. Therefore, my dear Sir, I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths whence your life wells forth; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create.

We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. In that vast open world, all beings are ? one cannot say contemporaneous, for the very fact that time has ceased determines that they all are . ?from letter to Witold Hulewicz (November 13, 1929)

A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity. In this nature of its origin lies the judgment of it: there is no other.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most

In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works. It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

These extremes of feeling at either end of the spectrum that most of us wish to avoid, even as we are drawn into them, are the twin realities that help shape our search. We want to find happiness. We want to avoid pain. We want to know who we are. We want to know what we are. We care about our origin and our essence. Pleasure and pain become indicators along the way on the road that will lead us to our destiny, and they are rooted in the question of our origin.

Al contrario de cualquier otro líder religioso de la historia, Jesús tenía un origen que apuntaba a su origen verdadero y eterno.

As Julie Andrews once sang, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could.

Non è stato il Governo a decidere; non ci sono stati in origine editti, manifesti, censure, no! ma la tecnologia, lo sfruttamento delle masse e la pressione delle minoranze hanno raggiunto lo scopo, grazie a Dio!

this and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder go when it dies?

We begin by beginning, I guess

La probabilidad de que se forme la vida a partir de la materia inanimada es una en 1040.000... Es lo suficientemente grande como para sepultar a Darwin y toda la teoría de la evolución. No hubo un caldo primigenio, ni en este planeta ni en ningún otro, y si los inicios de la vida no fueron al azar, debieron haber sido el producto de la inteligencia con propósito". Sir Fred Hoyle, profesor de astronomía de la Universidad de Cambridge.

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Power—often military power—was at the origin of these inequities.

When John the Evangelist speaks of "the children of God that are not born from flesh and blood," from whom do the children of flesh and blood come? Are not these children from another creator—the devil—who according to Christ's own words is "their Father"?

Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.

But that doesn't seem to matter; all that does matter is that the information comes from a reputable source.