Conceiving Quotes

• Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Perfection, Sin

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• If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

  Neil Postman

  Children, Parenting, Childhood

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.138, Vintage

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• Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Acceptance

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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  Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Communication, Novelists

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

  Ivan van Sertima

  Native American, Discovery, People

  Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke “Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)”, Clemson Brown

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• For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pregnancy, Birth, Joyful

  Sheila Kitzinger (1990). “The Experience of Childbirth”, Viking Press

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• God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

  Max Lucado

  Marriage, God, Government

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.

  David Hume

  Hurt, Army, Moon

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.29, Stanford University Press

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• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Exercise

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• Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.

  Merlin Stone

  Acceptance, Calling, Might

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.250, Doubleday

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• 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.

  Norman Mailer

  Baby, Children, Book

  1971 'The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian', in Village Voice, 21 Jan.

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• Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Motherhood, Self

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.154, CUA Press

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• The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Blessed, Grace, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1808). “The Works of President Edwards;: A treatise conserning religious affections. Christian cautions. A warning to professors. The final judgment. Sinners in Zion tenderly warned. The end of the wicked contemplated by the righteous”, p.69

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• I want to get an abortion. But my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving.

  Sarah

  Abortion, My Boyfriend, Want

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• Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fountain, Obtaining, Assistance

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

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• I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.' So he was partially right wasn't he? But the fact that a woman may have already ovulated 12 hours before she is raped, you're not going to prevent a pregnancy there by a woman's body shutting anything down because the horse has already left the barn, so to speak.

  Phil Gingrey

  Baby, Horse, Couple

  "Phil Gingrey Defends Todd Akin’s Rape Comment: ‘He’s Partly Right’" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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• I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Success, Air, Hands

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• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Infinity, Accepting, Incapable

  "The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir (Part 2, Chapter 2 "Time, activity, history", p. 412), 1970.

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• You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Practice, Technique

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• Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

  Bertrand Russell

  Awareness, Universal, Concepts

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Bernd Frohmann (1992). “Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13”, p.150, Psychology Press

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• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Adventure, Goes On, Want

  "The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Part 2, Chapter 2: "Time, activity, history", p. 412, 1970.

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• 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.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Animal, Opportunity, Atmosphere

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