Quotes of: Original Keyword

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

Alan Garner

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

Olympia Dukakis

12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies we have for these date from 1,300, 900, and 700 years after the original writing, respect...

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

Classic of Tea: Origins and Rituals

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no o...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you have a strong stomach read on.

Holiday Hospital Stay Poetry Collection 2012: An Original Poetry Collection Inspired by My 2012 Holiday Hospital Stay

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

But a central message there is, and it is the recognition of this that has led to the common treatment of the Bible as a book, and not simply a collection of books - just as the Greek plural biblia (books) became the Latin singular biblia (the book).

The Origin of the Bible

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.

The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.

The Origin of Species

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

The Origin of Species

I don't know if i can," I said, looking up into Archer's eyes. "Honestly, Archer....I'm tired of being scared, tired of loving you on one hand and hating you on the other.

The Original Sin