Origin Quotes

• One must be born to any superior world — to make it plainer, one must be bred for it. One has a right to philosophy (taking the word in its greatest sense) only by virtue of one's breeding; one's ancestors, one's "blood," decides this, too. Many generations must have worked on the origin of a philosopher; each one of his virtues must have been separately earned, cared for, passed on, and embodied.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Generations
  • Origin
  • Be Born

• Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt
  • Origin

• Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

  

  U Thant
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Origin

• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Cure
  • Physician
  • Origin

• Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Become
  • Again
  • Origin

• A man is the origin of his action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Action
  • Origin

• The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Metaphor
  • Acts
  • Origin

• Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Originality
  • Origin
  • Returning

• I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Stop
  • Just
  • Origin

• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

  

  Aristotle
  • Strange
  • Circle
  • Marvel

• Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Things
  • Geometry
  • Origin

• The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is not just another car.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • Believe
  • Car
  • Magic

• Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Understanding
  • Religion
  • Belief

• When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

  

  Aristotle
  • Act
  • Responsible
  • Unjust

• Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

  

  Paul de Man
  • Present
  • Origin
  • Modernity

• From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Name
  • Origin
  • Antiquity

• My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Understand
  • Sovereign
  • Origin

• The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Drive
  • Origin

• All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • True
  • Spirit
  • Origin

• War is life war is the origin of all things.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Life
  • War
  • Origin

• This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

  

  Socrates
  • Wonder
  • Sense
  • Philosopher

• Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Origin

• There is nothing supernatural about the process of self-organization to states of higher entropy; it is a general property of systems, regardless of their materials and origin. It does not violate the Second Law of thermodynamics since the decrease in entropy within an open system is always offset by the increase of entropy in its surroundings.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Law
  • Supernatural
  • Entropy

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