Quotes About Conception

W]e rely on what we think (conception), rather than on what we see (perception), … [T]here's unrest in our mind.

But when something is easy to imagine, it's often because you've failed to imagine it in sufficient detail.

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.

The "world" of the Sumerians was not objective reality, as we presently construe it. It was simultaneously more and less—more, in that this "primitive" world contained phenomena that we do not consider part of "reality," such as affect and meaning; less, in that the Sumerians could not describe (or conceive of) many of those things that processes of science have revealed to us. Myth is not primitive proto-science. It is a qualitatively different phenomenon.

O homem médio tem "ideias" dentro de si, mas carece da função de idear.

Para concebir una perfección se requiere cierto nivel ético y es indispensable alguna educación intelectual. Sin ellos pueden tenerse fanatismos y supersticiones; ideales, jamás.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

The harsh blows of reality need to be felt before we begin to change; and we always prefer to change the form, that which is most clearly visible as being negative, rather than tackle the real essence of all the difficulties that exist today, which is this false conception of the communist human being based on a long-established economic practice that tends, and will always tend, to convert humans into little more than numbers in the production process through the lever of material interest.

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.

We can easily see that the new conception of the Tomb in Arcady initiated by Poussin's Louvre picture, and sanctioned by the mistranslation of its inscription, could lead to reflections of almost opposite nature, depressing and melancholy on the one hand, comforting and assuaging on the other; and more often than not, to a truly "Romantic" fusion of both.

Maturity requires the integration, not the amputation, of what we have received through our conception and birth, our infancy and schooling.

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.