#origins

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. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#back #belief #case #faith #individual

Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of our business…but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self-sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offspring’s of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#creator #guidance #identity #inner-self #knowledge

If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#depths #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #origins #water

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. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

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

— Daniel Barenboim

#certainly #disease #historical #origins #philosophical

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#been #boy #bright #cut #deep

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins. ↗

— Harry Bridges

#beliefs #colors #due #i #must

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#conversation #hide #i #i am #i am what i am

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#been #five #gotten #i #into

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. ↗

— Malcolm X

#origins #racism #roots #originality