Quotes About Origins

wanted to believe the Darwinian idea. I chose to believe it not because I think there was enormous evidence for it, nor because it had the full authority to give interpretation to my origins, but I chose to believe it because it delivered me from trying to find meaning and freed me to my own erotic passions.

He had come from the humblest of backgrounds, born in a cottage he had built with his own hands

It had all begun, very precisely, he told his mind, on the morning of the 28th of January 1936, at Arkhangelsk railway station. No, his mind responded, nothing begins just like that, on a certain date at a certain place. It all began in many places, and at many times, some even before you were born, in foreign countries, and in the minds of others. —

Even the most made up of stories has its roots in the truth. That one more so than many.

We weten niet wie de evangeliën geschreven hebben. Toen ze voor het eerst opdoken circuleerden ze anoniem, en ze werden pas later toegeschreven aan belangrijke figuren uit de jong christelijke kerken. De auteurs waren joodse christenen.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust.

Women were as mysterious to them as the origins of the planet.

Cilv?kiem pat?k tr?t m?les un kladzin?t. Cilv?ks nav vis c?lies no p?rti?a, bet gan no vistas.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.