Conceptions

The mellow sounds of the Rhodes piano are partly responsible for thousands of accidental conceptions.

Don't forget that wrong conceptions lead to wrong conclusions.

Of all the personages whose marvelous doings once filled the minds of men, he alone survives. He has outlived all the great gods, and all the impressive and poetic conceptions which once flitted between heaven and earth; these have gone, but Santa Claus remains by virtue of a common understanding that childhood shall not be despoiled of one of its most cherished beliefs.

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

While some believe that science and religion are irreconcilable worldviews based in conflicting conceptions of truth, others see them as two distinct - and potentially complementary - approaches to understanding the universe.

The phenomenon of the inner moral life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for everyone lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires, the age of utter certainty: whoever expresses doubt admits to weakness.

I read the article "Examples of Buddho-Daoist Interaction: Afterlife Conceptions in Early Medieval Epigraphic Sources."

This thought, that a man may forfeit his rights, is as essential to proper conceptions of civil government, and civil liberty, as the thought that a man has rights; for if there be no forfeiture of rights through crime, then all legal punishments are without foundation in justice; even the right of self-defense, individually and nationally, ceases to exist.

It may seem wonderful that language, which is the only method of conveying our conceptions, should, at the same time, be an hindrance to our advancement in philosophy; but the wonder ceases when we consider, that it is seldom studied as the vehicle of truth, but is too frequently esteemed for its own sake, independent of its connection with things.