The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Walter Kaufmann

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
Doug Coupland

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
Tommy Shaw

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
Dario Argento

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
Margaret Mahy

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Gene Tierney

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
Neko Case

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
Elihu Root

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

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.
Eli Wallach

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
Edward Sapir

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Steve Lacy

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Neil LaBute

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Bernadette Peters