Original Quotes - page 2

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. (Aldous Huxley)
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. View quote
Karl Marx
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. View quote
Karl Marx
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! View quote
Manuel Puig
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. View quote
Elihu Root
You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? View quote
Bernadette Peters
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. View quote
Thomas Paine
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. (David Ricardo)
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. View quote
Billy Joel
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. View quote
Joseph Addison
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. View quote
Judith Butler
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. View quote
Richard Bach
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller
There is no original truth, only original error. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. (Johan Huizinga)
He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original. View quote
Alice Cooper
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. View quote
Anatole France
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. View quote
William Wordsworth
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. View quote
Pablo Picasso