Origins Quotes

I`ll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I`m from Quebec and every time I go to a country I say that. It`s my roots, my origins and it`s the most important thing to me.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Now they`re attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

Maybe it`s because I came from a broken home. I wasn`t so happy in my childhood. My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn`t have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s. People didn`t break up - even if they didn`t love each other - in traditional Chinese families. Not like today. (On the origins of his mournfulness)

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one`s origins and one`s final achievement.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

I just wanted to try directing, and the best way was to write the material, so I was imbued with its origins when I was dealing with the actors.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

When Hegel later became a man of influence` he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

He has given us a collection of plays, each one unique, but together they speak to our origins, our potential, our frailties and our hopes as no other plays have done.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference