Conception Quotes - Page 34

• Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.

  James Madison

  Men, Imperfection, Add

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.176, Coventry House Publishing

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• Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can we write down a universe that doesn't have time? Sure. Do we think that would be realised in the larger reality that is out there? None of us take that possibility seriously.

  Brian Greene

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

  Desmond Tutu

  Play, Symphony, Community

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• Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

  Wallace Stevens

  Perception, Mind, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.246, Vintage

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• In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Pride, Men, Identity

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• We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

  Florence King

  Nice, Government, Differences

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.82, Macmillan

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• The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Culture, Proof

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, May, Telescopes

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• I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hilarious, New York, Children

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• Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mean, Independence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.319, Rajpal & Sons

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• It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

  James Henry Breasted

  Careers, Achievement, Historical

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• That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

  Peter Bichsel

  Teacher, Observers

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• 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.

  Rene Descartes

  Light, Intuition, Mind

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• A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Wise, Wisdom

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

  Thomas Sowell

  Powerful, Political, Advice

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.8, Basic Books

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• No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Long, Doe

  Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.

  Leopold Stokowski

  War, Heart, Simple

  "Music For All Of Us". Book by Leopold Stokowski, 1943.

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• The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Strong, Experience

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• The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

  John Foster Dulles

  Commitment, Special, Principles

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Long, Elbows

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• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Color, Design

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• Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Men, Skulls, Infinity

  "God is Not Cast Down". Book by Kazimir Malevich, 1922.

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• Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Inspiration, Demand, Enthusiasm

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