Conception Quotes

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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no… — Edgar Degas
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a… — Herbert Croly
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end… — Benjamin Tucker
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception… — Theodore Kaczynski
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism. — Aneurin Bevan
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our… — Ken Robinson
Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our… — Ken Robinson
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man;… — Jeremy Bentham
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Mark Bostridge
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized â€“ the right to be… — Edward Kennedy
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the… — Otto Weininger
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach… — Alfred Russel Wallace
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at… — Allan Haines Loughead
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself… — Julius Evola
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a… — Lillian Hellman
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.… — Robert K. Merton
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should… — Tom Coburn
Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only… — Neville Goddard

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