“we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How do I define God? I don't… People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“...because to me the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind, there has to be no reality anyway… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“The conceptions of life and the world which we call 'philosophical' are a product of two factors: one, inherited religious and ethical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Without the aid of any man, he will define himself as that which he desires to express. He will discover that his… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“It proves that one's life is not confined to one's body and what one says or does; one is living all the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
“I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“That is one of the conceptions most difficult for stupid people to grasp. They always suppose some ponderable alteration will make the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image