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Quotes About Conception

Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.
~ Emil Cioran
I, of course, admit that the conception of God has taken many shapes in the long-drawn course of human development, some of them degraded, all of them inadequate.
~ balfour arthur james iii
Talent in love, as in every other art, consists in the power of forming a conception combined with the power of carrying it out.
~ balzac honore de xviii
Is it possible for a ghost to have a baby?
~ Barbara Cartland
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The rational conception of God is that He is; nothing more. To give Him an attribute is to make Him a relative God.
~ baring gould sabine vi
Our conception of God being derived from ourselves and the objects affecting us, we can form no idea except one made up of materials furnished by our experience and reflection. Therefore we select whatever powers and qualities we find amongst ourselves, and consider to be most commendable; we separate them from everything gross, material and imperfect, and heighten them to the utmost imaginable pitch; the aggregate of all these makes up our first rational conception of God.
~ baring gould sabine vi
whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
~ Baruch Spinoza
We there showed that the idea of body and body, that is, mind and body (II. xiii.), are one and the same individual conceived now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension; wherefore the idea of the mind and the mind itself are one and the same thing, which is conceived under one and the same attribute, namely, thought.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
~ Novalis
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
~ Nikola Tesla
When these images clash—as in The Fascist octupus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot—it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.
~ George Orwell
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
~ Buddha
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
Words, hmm? They seduce us in darkness, and the mind clothes and fashions them to fashions of its own.
~ Sarah Waters
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.
~ Albert Einstein
Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.
~ Anthony Davis
For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
~ Brit Marling
I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.
~ Courteney Cox
So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.
~ Ron Paul
The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.
~ Mark Twain
Immaculate Conception, that if the Virgin would permit him to
~ Mark Twain
So I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture.
~ Mark Twain
DüÅŸünce, d??ar?dan al?nan izlenimlerin mekanik ve otomatik olarak bir araya getirilmesi ve bunlardan bir ç?kar?m yap?lmas?d?r.
~ Mark Twain