Quotes About Origin

Qu'est-ce qu'une religion, en effet, sinon une secte qui a réussi ? Inversement, une secte est une religion qui a raté. Originellement, le bouddhisme est une secte du brahmanisme et le christianisme est une secte du judaïsme – leur triomphe final en a fait des religions.

Either one attributes one's presence here to the laws of biology and physics, or one attributes it to a divine design.

The origin of superstition above given affords us a clear reason for the fact, that it comes to all men naturally, though some refer its rise to a dim notion of God, universal to mankind, and also tends to show, that it is no less inconsistent and variable than other mental hallucinations and emotional impulses, and further that it can only be maintained by hope, hatred, anger, and deceit; since it springs, not from reason, but solely from the more powerful phases of emotion.

we are all stardust, or nuclear waste depending on your analysis

Es que quiere evitar el mal y es incapaz de hacerlo? Entonces, es que es impotente. ¿Es que puede, pero no quiere? Entonces es malévolo. ¿Es que quiere y puede? Entonces, ¿de dónde proviene el mal?6

The stamp of the lowly origin is to be found in our appendix, in the now needless coat of hair that we still grow (and then shed) after five months in the womb, in our easily worn-out knees, our vestigial tails, and the many caprices of our urinogenital arrangements. Why do people keep saying, "God is in the details"? He isn't in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, failure, and incompetence.

It is strange how people seem to belong to places - especially to places where they were not born...

È strano come ogni persona sembri avere un luogo suo… specialmente se non ci è nata.

What is your name? asked Lear. Caius, said Kent. And whence do you hail? From Bonking, sire. Well, yes, lad, as do we all, said Lear, but from what town?

And whence do you hail?" "From Bonking, sire." "Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

from whence you come.

It's as if Joshua springs forth full grown from the head of Zeus. (Okay, bad metaphor, but you know what I mean.)

They have forgotten much of what they once knew. They have even lost the secret of their origin. But I will give it to you, and this will give you a powerful advantage over them. Do you know the legend of the Hydra?

This is because fears often partly originate from a subconscious reaction to a poor plan or a lack of a plan (this is also where procrastination comes from).

Now, the first day of all of time—future and past.

no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the hermeneutic practice, there is a circle; it does not matter how holy or how vicious.

se dá excessivo relevo ao aspecto físico, esquecendo que o mal, quando irrompe, muito provavelmente tem origens psíquicas. E, se tem origens psíquicas, é a psique que devemos tratar, não o corpo.

What are we, really; and how do we come to be, and for what purpose are we placed here, and what becomes of us when we depart? Above all, what is the origin of that strange faculty in us which we call conscience? Why do we have a sense of duty, and what is the basis of its validity, and of our assurance concerning it? If we are as the beasts of the field that perish, why do we owe any obligation to the world, or to our fellow men, or to ourselves?

But in biological systems there is a deep unity between structure, function, and origin. You cannot make very much progress understanding any one of these unless you are also paying close attention to the other two.

Veda means originally knowing or knowledge, and this name is given

Another story must begin!

How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.

Vy na samom dele ne russkaya, ne tak li?

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.