With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it. — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception. — Ron Paul 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 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
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience… — William James Copy Share Image
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and… — William D. Hoard Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in… — Jonathan Edwards 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
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are… — Robert Beer Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however,… — Alfred Einstein Copy Share Image
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me. — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one.” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
“Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it’s a fierce and unforgiving team sport.” — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“Yes, it's true. Immaculate conception exists. I am the second coming of Christ. I have no father.” — Nathan Wrann 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
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