#original

altho’ Chance produces Irregularities, still the Odds will be infinitely great, that in process of Time, those Irregularities will bear no proportion to the recurreney of that Order which naturally results from ORIGINAL DESIGN ↗

— Abraham De Moivre

#chance #de #design #moivre #original

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers. ↗

— Ester Buchholz

#original #quiet #inspirational

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#independent-thought #influence #originality #thoughts #life

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#good-and-evil #greed #knowledge #motivation #original-sin

The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#coins #counterfeit #cross #currency #dream-big

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#originality

Only those with no memory insist on their originality. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#originality #originality

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#originality

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#nihilism #russia #originality

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#quotations #thought #originality