I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.
Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant.
I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.
There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.
I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
Vine was like no other creative rush I ever had. In minutes, you could conceive an idea, shoot it and send it off to millions.
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
To make 'Sound of My Voice,' we had to conceive the entire world and understand it holistically. If you want to show less in a movie, you've got to figure out more.
My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
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