Conception Quotes

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To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.… — David Mazzucchelli
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and… — Nikola Tesla
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took… — Joseph Conrad
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. — Anton Chekhov
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids arenâ€™t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madmanâ€™s conception of a… — Robert A. Heinlein
Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable… — William Hazlitt
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of Godâ€”a phrase… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes. — David Mitchell
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious… — Charles Dickens
My conception of freedom. â€” The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us. — Oswald Chambers
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions… — Frederick Jackson Turner
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to… — Albert Schweitzer
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every… — Emma Goldman
Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God.… — Nevill Francis Mott

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