The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have the "spotless Lamb of God" bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much… — Don Wilton Copy Share Image
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human… — Ismail al-Faruqi Copy Share Image
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James Copy Share Image
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of… — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
