Quotes About Origins

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies.

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

origins. We are indeed selfish hypocrites so skilled at putting on a show of virtue that we fool even ourselves.

Whatever its origins, the psychology of sacredness helps bind individuals into moral communities.42 When someone in a moral community desecrates one of the sacred pillars supporting the community, the reaction is sure to be swift, emotional, collective, and punitive. To

the use of "the blues" as a term for feeling down came from a Native American tribe in the south who would cover their bodies with a blue dye when they were in mourning. Slaves in the area saw the practice and coined the term "feeling blue.

This paradox suggests that Judaism has a different understanding of language than the one that prevails in the West and had its origins in ancient Greece. The philosophers, heirs to the Greeks, tended to think of language as conveying information. What matters is whether it is true or false.

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.

Although the spoken word is over six million years old

desconectó dichos archivos primero, ocultó su origen después y, por último, juzgó negativamente a las culturas originarias

evaluando dichas culturas como primitivas y atrasadas. Fue así como surgió el mito de la «superioridad de Europa»

of German-Jewish writers as 'a marvellous nationality that they claimed when reminded of their Jewish origin, which somewhat resembles those modern passports that grant the bearer the right of sojourn in every country expect the one that issued it'.27

nada se cria a partir daquilo que não existe, porque se assim fosse, tudo se criaria a partir de tudo, sem necessidade de sementes.

every event whatsoever has a prior cause, whether known or not.

it does not really matter where the Sea Peoples came from, or even who they were or what they did. Far more important is the sociopolitical and economic change that they represent, from a predominantly palatial-controlled economy to one in which private merchants and smaller entities had considerably more economic freedom.

And if any of these forces were in the slightest degree different, our universe would not exist. But how were the values of these four fundamental forces determined, and how is it that they just happened to be precisely right for our universe to come into being?

human beings were taken from the earth and don't just consist of thin air and thoughts.

Potbelly Sandwich Shop, which today has over two hundred stores. It began as an antique store in 1977;

Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.

The world is experiencing a serious crisis, is undergoing a process of withering, which has its origins in the secularization of the soul and in the ensuing severance of a consequently purely secular soul from its roots in religiousness.

Moreover, the subjective interpretation which sees the myth as a transpersonal psychic event is, in view of the myth's origins in the collective unconscious, much fairer than an attempt to interpret it objectively

they come up with that one? The

Next time," Lionblaze muttered, "I'll check who my parents are before I'm born.

The only sin is the sin of being born.