It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
Source: The Philosophy of History, pt. 3, sct. 3, ch. 2, 1837.
-- Georg Hegel, (Aug 27 1770-1831), German philosopher; His philosophical system emphasized history and ideas from thesis to antithesis; influenced Sartre, Marx and others.