Quotes About Origin

To begin at the beginning.

Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

Hello." "Hello yourself. Where you from?" "From hunger!

Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, 'Ma fia! Ma fia!

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day.

We are naturally grieved over the fact that a just God and a kindly providence do not guard us better against such influences in our most defenseless age. We thereby gladly forget that as a matter of fact everything in our life is accident from our very origin through the meeting of spermatozoa and ovum, accident, which nevertheless participates in the lawfulness and fatalities of nature, and lacks only the connection to our wishes and illusions.

The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile now unconscious and suppressed wish, which then allowed it, though already properly prepared, to originate for consciousness.

In other words, we have once more come unawares upon the riddle which has so often confronted us: whence does neurosis come—what is its ultimate, its own peculiar raison d'être ? After tens of years of psychoanalytic labours, we are as much in the dark about this problem as we were at the start.

In my opinion the other affects are also reproductions of very early, perhaps even pre-individual, experiences of vital importance; and I should be inclined to regard them as universal, typical and innate hysterical attacks, as compared to the recently and individually acquired attacks which occur in hysterical neuroses and whose origin and significance as mnemic symbols have been revealed by analysis.

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Humility consists in knowing that in what we call 'I' there is no source of energy by which we can rise. Everything, without exception, that is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift, but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

Every act should be considered from the point of view not of its object but of its impulsion. The question is not 'What is the aim?' It is 'What is the origin?

We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us

The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.

That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Rebirth is neither born of blood nor flesh or human origin. But born of God.

If you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

In order for us to begin something we have to start.

Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.