In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter… — Jerome Lejeune 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
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first… — Colum McCann 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
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
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
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
When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can… — Jean-Francois Lyotard 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
More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“In life or death situations, my father has only been there once for me. So I'd like to tell him thanks for… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image