Conception Quotes

459 quotes by 382 authors

The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression. — Walter J. Phillips
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of… — Rachel Carson
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with… — Matthew Arnold
I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at least a forester worked in… — Gifford Pinchot
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of… — Jules Olitski
It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which… — Giorgio de Chirico
A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism. — John Mortimer
The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal'… — E. M. Forster
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something… — C.S. Lewis
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see… — William John Locke
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to… — Felix Frankfurter
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens… — Nicolaus Copernicus
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to… — James Dean
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He… — E. M. Forster
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. — Dag Hammarskjold
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In… — Sam Harris
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it. — Sam Harris
I think the materialist conception of history is valid. — Christopher Hitchens
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or… — Thomas Hobbes

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