Be Original Quotes

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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

There is no original truth, only original error.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.