The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.
Quotes about conceiving (16 Quotes)
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul But I simply do not believe it.
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
For certain families who are having trouble conceiving, I think they are a success, ... The problem, the side effect is you wind up with all these multiple pregnancies, multiple births which result in a lot of increase in health problems.
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
The most-researched vehicles list makes it clear that the import manufacturers are doing a better job than the domestic makers in conceiving and producing high-volume vehicles. The Big 3 automakers used to dominate the top sellers, but this list is another indication that imports are mainstream vehicles to a broad cross-section of Americans.
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.