Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" — John Owen Copy Share Image
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
My personal opinion is that life begins at the point of conception, and abortion is morally indefensible. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.). — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my… — Mary Baker Eddy 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 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
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and… — Irwin Stone Copy Share Image
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
From conception to delivery, it has been a great experience. I was determined to give a natural birth. — Shweta Menon Copy Share Image
Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher. — William James Copy Share Image
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through… — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that for a woman to conceive in the act of coition she, as well as the man. must be satisfied.… — Robin Maxwell Copy Share Image
Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise. — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
