#origins

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#origins #our #perceptions

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#beginning #daredevil #did #first #five

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

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

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

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#background #confidence #cultivation #development #enlightenment

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #atheist #beginning #belief #cause

The final standards do a good job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming but, as perhaps was inevitable as soon as bureaucratic and industrial thinking was brought to bear, many of the philosophical values embodied in the word "organic" - the sorts of values expressed by Albert Howard - did not survive the federal rule making process. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature