Conception Quotes

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.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

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 do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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 glorious unity.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.