Artificial Quote by Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

— Wallace Stevens

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and…

— Nikola Tesla

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

— Wallace Stevens

The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious:…

— Auguste Comte

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes…

— G.K. Chesterton

All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.

— Neville Goddard

“That is one of the conceptions most difficult for stupid people to grasp. They always suppose some ponderable alteration will make the human condition…

— Anthony Powell

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else,…

— Marcel Proust

How do I define God? I don't… People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like.…

— Noam Chomsky

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

— Stephen Batchelor