“No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The Universal mind is not only intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive force which brings electrons together… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Take sex, for instance.' 'What do you want me to do with it?' 'Try to be serious for a moment. Take the… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe… — Michael Baumgartner Copy Share Image
It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing -… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is… — William H. Coles Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
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