--- title: "Top Conception Quotations" description: "Browse 865 Conception quotes by 644 authors. Discover the best Conception sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f9/mary-barnett-gilson-19023_academia_a-young-professor-i-watched-in-action-at_2206488.jpg" --- > [A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/a-young-professor-i-watched-in-action-at-one-of-our-large-eastern/) [Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f9/mary-barnett-gilson-19023_academia_a-young-professor-i-watched-in-action-at_2206488.jpg) > [All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-myerhoff/all-rituals-are-paradoxical-and-dangerous-enterprises-the-traditional/) [Barbara Myerhoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-myerhoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/barbara-myerhoff-71321_absolute-truth_all-rituals-are-paradoxical-and-dangerou_1661177.jpg) > [If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden/if-we-apply-the-term-revolution-to-what-happened-in-north-america/) [W. H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/w-h-auden-856_alive_if-we-apply-the-term-revolution-to-what_2415338.png) > [The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/the-soul-is-presupposed-as-a-ready-made-agent-which-displays-such/) [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/479/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_agents_the-soul-is-presupposed-as-a-ready-made_724051.png) > [All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-john-paul-ii/all-human-life-from-the-moment-of-conception-and-through-all/) [Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-john-paul-ii/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f84/pope-john-paul-ii-485_blow_all-human-life-from-the-moment-of-concep_493429.jpg) > [Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallin-h-oaks/our-attitude-toward-abortion-is-fixed-by-our-knowledge-that-according/) [Dallin H. Oaks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallin-h-oaks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ada/dallin-h-oaks-2042_abortion_our-attitude-toward-abortion-is-fixed-by_924644.jpg) > [In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/in-the-gospels-for-instance-we-sometimes-find-the-kingdom-of-heaven/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10a/george-santayana-478_active_in-the-gospels-for-instance-we-sometimes_2655010.png) > [The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/the-most-beautiful-conception-of-immortality-of-which-i-know-and/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1de/revilo-p-oliver-31602_beautiful_the-most-beautiful-conception-of-immorta_1822074.jpg) > [If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/if-the-health-impact-fund-were-to-be-instituted-a-single-company/) [Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/thomas-pogge-7757_approval_if-the-health-impact-fund-were-to-be-ins_2500631.jpg) > [A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-nathanson/a-favorite-pro-abortion-tactic-is-to-insist-that-the-definition-of/) [Bernard Nathanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-nathanson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/938/bernard-nathanson-48489_abortion_a-favorite-pro-abortion-tactic-is-to-ins_2949885.jpg) > [The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kropotkin/the-whole-aspect-of-the-universe-changes-with-this-new-conception-the/) [Peter Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kropotkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/peter-kropotkin-5421_aspect_the-whole-aspect-of-the-universe-changes_628371.jpg) > [Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/small-people-delight-in-what-they-call-consistency-that-is-it-gives/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49d/robert-green-ingersoll-361_amount_small-people-delight-in-what-they-call-c_2880269.jpg) > [What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nirmala-srivastava/what-we-have-to-understand-that-we-have-to-believe-into-things-which/) [Nirmala Srivastava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nirmala-srivastava/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/265/nirmala-srivastava-1048_actualization_what-we-have-to-understand-that-we-have_2485358.jpg) > [It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heber-doust-curtis/it-is-certainly-a-wonderful-a-brain-staggering-conception-that-our/) [Heber Doust Curtis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heber-doust-curtis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/heber-doust-curtis-83789_awe_it-is-certainly-a-wonderful-a-brain-stag_2056458.jpg) > [In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/in-our-constant-search-for-meaning-in-this-baffling-and-temporary/) [Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/024/alan-lightman-2270_conception_in-our-constant-search-for-meaning-in-th_610969.jpg) > [Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/only-a-handful-of-germans-in-the-reich-had-the-slightest-conception/) [Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/adolf-hitler-253_circles_only-a-handful-of-germans-in-the-reich-h_1024956.jpg) > [In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-dworkin/in-this-society-the-norm-of-masculinity-is-phallic-aggression-male/) [Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-dworkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/andrea-dworkin-1998_aggression_in-this-society-the-norm-of-masculinity_2697442.png) > [It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-constable/it-is-much-to-my-advantage-that-several-of-my-pictures-should-be-seen/) [John Constable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-constable/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/john-constable-11301_advantage_it-is-much-to-my-advantage-that-several_282700.jpg) > [The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-haring/the-public-needs-art-and-it-is-the-responsibility-of-a-self/) [Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-haring/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54d/keith-haring-14071_art_the-public-needs-art-and-it-is-the-respo_189841.jpg) > [I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-boole/i-presume-that-few-who-have-paid-any-attention-to-the-history-of-the/) [George Boole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-boole/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/george-boole-33776_analysis_i-presume-that-few-who-have-paid-any-att_539053.jpg) > [Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-weininger/mankind-occurs-as-male-or-female-as-something-or-nothing-woman-has-no/) [Otto Weininger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-weininger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/otto-weininger-11319_absolute-freedom_mankind-occurs-as-male-or-female-as-some_1507011.jpg) > [When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/when-we-contemplate-the-world-of-epicurus-and-conceive-the-universe/) [Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/thomas-reid-22153_admiration_when-we-contemplate-the-world-of-epicuru_475253.jpg) > [All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-stanley-hall/all-possible-truth-is-practical-to-ask-whether-our-conception-of/) [G. Stanley Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-stanley-hall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/g-stanley-hall-21940_active_all-possible-truth-is-practical-to-ask-w_2081197.jpg) > [America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-bridge/america-holds-up-its-way-of-life-as-the-ideal-for-every-nation-and/) [Ann Bridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-bridge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/704/ann-bridge-29051_america_america-holds-up-its-way-of-life-as-the_637851.jpg) > [What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/what-sets-imperialism-of-the-capitalist-sort-apart-from-other/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/david-harvey-10654_accumulation_what-sets-imperialism-of-the-capitalist_2723214.png) ## Top authors on Conception - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oswald-chambers-72884.jpg) Oswald Chambers 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/oswald-chambers/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-emma-goldman-33179.jpg) Emma Goldman 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/emma-goldman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-leo-tolstoy-55.jpg) Leo Tolstoy 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/leo-tolstoy/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-rawls-52160.jpg) John Rawls 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/john-rawls/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-dewey-51243.jpg) John Dewey 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conception/john-dewey/) - [Allen W. 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