#origin

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#apparatus #believed #cared #ceremonies #connected

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. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#act #dualism #healing #heals #here

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#be original #definition #figure #first #first time

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#danger #hammer #i #mike #original

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #becoming #beginning #believed #cast

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

— U Thant

#deserves #each #even #every #human

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#captures #chainsaw #companion #film #good

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ↗

— Dean Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

My best friend was Aboriginal. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#best #best friend #friend

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

#bare #bloom #creative #creativity #cultivate