Conceptions Quote by Anthony Powell

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions…

— Wallace Stevens

When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was…

— Max Horkheimer

The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious:…

— Auguste Comte

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes…

— G.K. Chesterton

All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.

— Neville Goddard

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else,…

— Marcel Proust

How do I define God? I don't… People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like.…

— Noam Chomsky

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

— Stephen Batchelor

“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with our own…

— Erik Pevernagie