It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but… — Sonu Nigam 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
There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role.… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books,… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state.… — Conor Lamb 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
In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially… — Julie Roginsky Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
“Quickening was crucial, because most people believed that the fetus did not receive a soul until the time when it could be… — Kyra Cornelius Kramer Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image