Quotes About Origins

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Freedom has its roots in religion.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.

Gods are great, " said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

In ancient tales she could have been one of those divine creatures who borrow their mothers' wombs to enter the mortal world and make a name for themselves, as a heroine or a devil, depending on the intention of the heavenly powers.

Would the book of Genesis have declared that Neanderthals descend from Adam and Eve, would Jesus have died for the sins of the Denisovans, and would the Qur'an have reserved seats in heaven for all righteous humans, whatever their species?

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. And it is doubly important to remember our origins at a time when we seek to turn ourselves into gods.

The earth of a hundred millennia ago was walked by at least six different species of man. It's

Yet it is an iron rule of history that every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable.

Qué lástima!, los primeros textos de la historia no contienen ideas filosóficas, ni poesía, leyendas, leyes, ni siquiera triunfos reales. Son documentos económicos aburridos que registran el pago de impuestos, la acumulación de deudas y la posesión de propiedades

Durante mucho tiempo, Homo sapiens prefirió considerarse separado de los animales, un huérfano carente de familia, sin hermanos ni primos y, más importante todavía, sin padres.

The chimpanzees are the closest. Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.

Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.

The earth of a hundred millennia ago was walked by at least six different species of man.

SEVENTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO, HOMO sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the following millennia it transformed itself into the master of the entire planet and the terror of the ecosystem.

Yet it is an iron rule of history that every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable. For