Origin Quotes

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.