Conceptions Quotes

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I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless… — Matthew Simpson
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up. — Jake Gyllenhaal
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common… — Rachel Cusk
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling… — William James
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting… — George Bernard Shaw
A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order… — Clifford D. Simak
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and… — Marcel Proust
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre. — Billy Corgan
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I… — Lauren Willig
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained… — Wilkie Collins
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles… — Dan Brown
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood… — Jane Jacobs
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or… — William James
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy.… — Ellen G. White
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. — Wallace Stevens
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted… — Isaac Newton

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