Conception Quotes - Page 17

• Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

  William D. Hoard

  Views, Ideas, Progress

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Higher, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3128, Manonmani Publishers

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• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Writing, Color

  Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet”, p.28

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• The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Design, Execution

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• The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Theatre, Passionate

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press

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• It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

  Winston Churchill

  Liberty, Fundamentals, Socialism

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

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• In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

  Archibald Alexander

  Believe, Doctrine, Faith In God

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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Saint, Should

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

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• I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

  Stockwell Day

  Believe, Rights, Issues

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• And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

  Savitri Devi

  Beautiful, People, India

  Savitri Devi, G. D. Savarkar (1939). “A Warning to the Hindus”

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• If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Ideas, Needs

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.339, Discovery House

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• In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, Choices, Brutality

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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• A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Men, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.147, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Horizon, Noble, Pieces

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• Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

  Brian Eno

  Eras

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• Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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• Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

  Benito Mussolini

  Reality, Government, Individualism

  "The Doctrine of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini, Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, (p. 13), 1935.

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• Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

  Paul Twitchell

  Spiritual, Attitude, Determined

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• Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form and number which every human being possesses; and any person of average intellect can make himself a fair mathematician if he will only pay continuous attention; in plain English, think enough about the subject.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of-such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity....Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Mean, Men

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• Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

  Dick Gephardt

  Cells, Division, Life Is

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