Quotes About Origins

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured ... in India only.

Another noteworthy point is that the first was stolen from snow and the second from fire.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

All wars end up being reduced to statistics, strategies, debates about their origins and results. These debates about war are important, but not more important than the human story of those who fought in them.

To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.

we are the sum of all the dead that went before us. And

Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

The calcium in your bones came from a star. We are all made from recycle bits and pieces of the universe. This matters because origins matter.

You can dig through public records and other documents to find out if a certain person had an Aryan grandmother, but there's no way to tell if that grandmother's Eocene ancestor was a sinanthropus or a pithecanthropus.

Put simply, unlike terrestrial organisms it did not adapt to its surroundings over the course of hundreds of millions of years, so as only then to produce a rational species, but it had gained control over its environment from the start.

Zeev Sternhell has conclusively demonstrated that nearly all the ideas found in fascism and nazism first appeared in France.

I am who I am not because of an essential self hidden away in the core of my being but because of the unprecedented and unrepeatable matrix of conditions that have formed me. The more I delve into this mystery of who I am (or what anything is)

This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.

No podemos elegir de donde venimos pero si hacia donde vamos

In short, Normandy owed its existence to an Englishman who deflected invaders away from Britain and over to France. An auspicious start.

only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: "Why is the universe the way we see it?" The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!

Anaximander, a friend and possibly a student of Thales, argued that since human infants are helpless at birth, if the first human had somehow appeared on earth as an infant, it would not have survived. In what may have been humanity's first inkling of evolution, people, Anaximander reasoned, must therefore have evolved from other animals whose young are hardier.

As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. We should therefore cut them out of the model and say that time had a beginning at the big bang.

En consecuencia, si solo sabemos lo que ha sucedido desde el big bang, no podemos determinar lo que sucedió antes. Para nosotros, los sucesos anteriores al big bang no pueden tener consecuencias, de modo que no deberían formar parte de un modelo científico del universo. Por eso deberíamos eliminarlos del modelo y decir que el tiempo tuvo un comienzo en el big bang.

Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention.

A single lie is the father of all lies

Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it.

Culture is taking whatever background you come from and either running with it or running from it.