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• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sage, Literature, Occupation

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

  T. E. Lawrence

  Details, Ornaments, World

  Letter to Bruce Rogers, August 20, 1931.

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• My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

  Arthur Miller

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Work Out, Personality, Brain

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• One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Evil, Doe

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• Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

  Steven Pinker

  Giving, Psychology, Meaning Of Life

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• It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.107, North Point Press

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• One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

  Simone Weil

  Degrees, Movement, Charity

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.41, Routledge

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• For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against God by affirming himself, by acting proudly, arrogantly, and without constraints, is not a woman's concern. Rather, we women are in danger of not developing any pride, of never becoming independent, of constantly remaining within too narrow boundaries.

  Dorothee Solle

  Independent, Pride, Acting

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Punishment, Suffering, Fierce

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Names, Church

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

  Edward Weston

  Technique, Execution, Excellent

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• Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

  Fred Thompson

  Abortion

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• Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Youth, Mankind

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• Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Past, Space, Life And Death

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Apr 15, 2015

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• It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don't agree with us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, People, Cold

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.18, Discovery House

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• Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Taken, Helping, Reckless

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.41, Discovery House

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

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• So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.

  Carl Jung

  Character, Men, Astrology

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• The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

  Justin Torres

  Animal, Kingdoms, Shame

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will belong to every man, love will dominate human society, truth and virtue will reign in the world, peace on earth will be permanent and all will live in fulfillment in fullness of life in God Consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Fullness Of Life, Joy

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, Despair, Levity

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• What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

  Thomas Friedman

  Believe, Rest Of Life, Abortion

  "Why I Am Pro-Life" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock."

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Pieces, Clock

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