Our Conception Quotes

25 quotes by 23 authors

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception… — George Santayana
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. — Pablo Picasso
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a… — Alfred Einstein
The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. — Cyril of Jerusalem
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad,… — Mortimer Adler
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary… — John Herschel
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. — Paul Twitchell
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. — Georges Braque
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
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial… — Franz Kafka
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each… — Steven Pinker
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in… — H.G. Wells
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. — Romola Garai
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that… — Jorge Luis Borges
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we… — Bertrand Russell
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. — Anton Chekhov
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

Who Wrote These Our Conception Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 25 Our Conception Quotes as follows: