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Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

Benjamin Tucker

Government, Organization, Doe

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The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

Jacob Bronowski

Faith, Men, Thinking

"The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Benjamin Franklin

Sorry, Nice, Science

1783 Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, 27 Jul.

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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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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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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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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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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Tom Stoppard

Sacrifice, Thinking, Attention

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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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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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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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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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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

Robert Genn

Art, Perfect, Events

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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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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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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Success, Destiny, Giving

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Soul, Twists, Lows

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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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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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The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

Timothy Keller

Christian, Mean, Giving

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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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