America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so… — Anna Brownell Jameson 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
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can’t… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont 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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
