Language, Culture, Philosophy, and Religion
- Genealogy, origin of families
- The birth of a living entity, thought, belief or idea
- Epistemology, origin of knowledge
- Origin myth, a story or explanation that describes the beginning of some feature of the natural or social world
- Origin story, or pourquoi story, a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is
- Original sin, in Christian theology
- Etymology, origin of words
- Toponymy, origin of place names
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“I told him that Goldsmith had said,... “As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest.” I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON. Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)