Conceived Quotes

369 Conceived quotes by 315 unique authors

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As… — Ernest Renan
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any… — Galileo Galilei
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man. — Mahatma Gandhi
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most… — Eric Hoffer
Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. — Allan Bloom
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of… — Baruch Spinoza
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from… — Blaise Pascal
What is conceived well is expressed clearly. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had… — Anton Seidl
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding… — Frederick Lenz
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical… — John Walford
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the… — Isabel Wilkerson
I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it… — Louise Brown
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived. — Anselm of Canterbury
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has… — Lincoln Steffens
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated,… — John Harvey Kellogg

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