Quotes about Origins

The beginning of all pain and suffering in the world started with one act of disobedience. Christian and non-Christian alike have inherited the consequences from our common ancestors, Adam and Eve—our polluted environment and flawed human nature.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology.

American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

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.