Quotes About Origin

In justice to desponding men, it is as well to remember that the brighter endurance of women at these epochs — invaluable, sweet, angelic, as it is — owes more of its origin to a narrower vision that shuts out many of the leaden-eyed despairs in the van, than to a hopefulness intense enough to quell them.

That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly understood, had received its deathblow at Mr. Darwin 's hands. For the teleological argument runs thus: an organ or organism (A) is precisely fitted to perform a function or purpose (B); therefore it was specially constructed to perform that function.

In our most recent national survey of millionaires, we asked the respondents to designate their country of origin/ancestry/ethnic origin. The results may surprise you. TABLE

Al igual que el tiempo, el espacio trae consigo el olvido; aunque lo hace desprendiendo a la persona humana de sus contingencias para transportarla a un estado de libertad originaria; incluso del pedante y el burgués hace, de un solo golpe, una especie de vagabundo. El tiempo, según dicen, es Lete, el olvido; pero también el aire de la distancia es un bebedizo semejante, y si bien su efecto es menos radical, cierto es que es mucho más rápido.

but just as little might one say that they had been derived from organic nature.

La maldad, señor, es el espíritu de la crítica, y la crítica es el origen del progreso y la ilustración.

from whose womb will come the last and greatest instrument of destruction.

My skepticism is not based on religious belief, or on a belief in any definite alternative. It is just a belief that the available scientific evidence, in spite of the consensus of scientific opinion, does not in this matter rationally require us to subordinate the incredulity of common sense. That is especially true with regard to the origin of life.

She used to think there would be a greater sense of forward movement in her life, but now it seemed like where a person ended up was going to turn out to have everything to do with where she started.

Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed." Murray quipped, "She doesn't have a right side." "Hey, you know where that term came from?" Jules asked. Sophie smiled at the probie. "Where?" "Left-handed people used to be considered defective. So family members tried to break the habit. They'd push the lefty's bed to the wall and made him get up on the opposite side, causing the person to be cranky.

have you come from? You look most awfully tired . . . anyone for another

There is no origin for the word love. It is one of the first words and has always meant only itself.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

What I found about the blues and music, tracing things back, was that nothing came from itself.

Kinds are like the dog sort (including dingoes, wolves, coyotes, domestic dogs, etc.), cat sort (including lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats, domestic cats, etc.), horse sort (ponies, Clydesdales, donkeys, zebras, etc.), and so on. There is variation within these kinds especially since the Flood, but not evolution where one kind changes into a totally different kind over long periods of time — which is not observed anyway (e.g., amoebas turning into dogs).

Evolution is a religion; it is not science!

You did not invent marriage. God did.

I came out from the Father and have come into the universe. Again I leave the universe behind and proceed on my way to the Father.

only down below can we find the fiery source of life.

Jung identifies the "Anthropos" ("Primal Man" or "Original Man"), "Christ," and the "Son" with God. The Anthropos begins as part of the unconscious godhead, emerges as an independent ego, eventually forgets his unconscious origin, must be reminded of it by the godhead, and then returns to it to form a unified

revealing of its origin as a U. S. Army post before the National Park Service came to be. Elk

Fear created the first gods in the world.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

I may not know where you come from, but that's not the same as not knowing who you are.