Quotes About Derivation

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Shared visions emerge from personal visions. This is how they derive their energy and how they foster commitment. As

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

Jesus says that only God is good (Luke 18:19), so that all "goodness" in other things can only be derived. God's nature defines goodness itself, and since he "does not change like shifting shadows" (James 1:17), he is the sole and constant standard of goodness. No

L'antisémitisme est ce qui permet aux fascistes internationaux de dériver à leur profit, en le tournant contre les juifs, le potentiel de légitime ressentiment que l'injustice sociale accumule depuis des siècles dans les classes misérables

Quinn is a variant of Quentin, it also derives from the Latin quintus, which means "fifth

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. Everything enters something else. My days spill into light-years. This is why I can only pretend to be someone. And this is why I felt derived at first, working on these pages. I didn't know if it was me that was writing so much as someone I want to sound like.

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

But, as a matter of fact, we each derived a certain satisfaction from the mannerism, being still at the age in which one believes that one gives a thing real existence by giving it a name.

When parents are grieved by their children's wickedness they should take occasion thence to lament that corruption of nature which was derived from them, and which is the root of bitterness. But here we have that which was a relief to our first parents in their affliction.

Words derive their power from the original word.

The system isn't something you bring to the business. It's something you derive from the process of building the business.

The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea.

Everything is a version of something else

The next, magnificent step would of course have been to write , but the Stereometria records it as , and so Heron missed being the earliest known scholar to have derived the square root of a negative number in a mathematical analysis of a physical problem.