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“Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.”

People Effects Psychological Conception

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.”

“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?”

Imagine Eternity Conception

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.”

Ifs Humanity Cases Consistent Exception Conception Exclusive

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”

“Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.”

Thinking World Doe Real Reality Universe Bits Imagine Perception Essence Ghost Reports Conception Discrete

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.”

Problem Originals Worthy Planes Conception

Author:Albert Einstein

“Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.”

War Self Nations Responsibility Moral Heal Conception Moral Responsibility Stop War

Author:Amos Oz

“Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.”

Men Humans Objects Add Mediums Complexity Faculty Conception Imperfection Embarrassment Obscurity

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.”

Important Natural Perfect Party Republican Conception Imperfect Convenient Pro Life Inconvenient Natural Death

Author:Michele Bachmann

“But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.”

Ifs Wells Made Interesting Directors Theater Critics Japan Comparison Conception Representatives Haiku Sweeping Noh

Author:Hirokazu Koreeda

“I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would have it, keeping peace, in which case they're not there to actively intervene and stop violence? When we send them into these places, do we expect they will respond forcefully?”

Thinking Cases Violence Bigger Traditional Conception Expecting Peacekeepers

Author:Rebecca Hamilton

“But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.”

Trying War Happens Knowing Economic Birth Currents Pregnancy Conception Collapse Derivatives Economic Collapse

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can we write down a universe that doesn't have time? Sure. Do we think that would be realised in the larger reality that is out there? None of us take that possibility seriously.”

Thinking Writing Reality Would Be Universe Possibility Evolution Conception Realised

Author:Brian Greene

“Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.”

Years Said Two Done Lasts Hundred Consequence Western Iraq Conception Invasion Said And Done

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).”

Reality Strange Aspect Judgement Etc Fascinating Catholicism Conception Incarnation Eucharist Judgement Day

Author:Tim Crane

“We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.”

Way Purpose Situation Seeing Perception Hearing Conception

Author:Antonio Damasio

“It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.”

People Spiritual Moral Too Much Addiction Greed Stuck Obsession Reputation Conception Tied Malnutrition Constipation

Author:Cornel West

“All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.”

Games Bases Chess Conception

Author:Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

“It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.”

Real Issues Fine Posts Our Society Conception Heartbeat Measurement Unborn

Author:Tom Coburn

“Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.”

People Fighting Belief Contrary Conception Heavyweights Contrary To Popular Belief

Author:Rob Lowe

“All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.”

Needs Humans Important Light Human Beings Ethics Conception

Author:Alice Crary

“In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.”

Ifs Humans Looks Human Beings Effort Focus Ethics Standing Importance Fellows Obligation Conception Lenses Rework

Author:Alice Crary

“Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord.”

Mean Doe Lord Humility Mercy Dependent Conception

Author:Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami

“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.”

Kind Facts Lasts Law Names Judgement Conception Martial Law

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“What is the result of our investigation of the Moslem idea of God? Is the statement of the Koran true, "Your God and our God is the same"? In as far as Moslems are monotheists and in as far as Allah has many of the attributes of Jehovah we cannot put Him with the false gods. But neither can there be any doubt that Mohammed's conception of God is inadequate, incomplete, barren and grievously distorted. It is vastly inferior to the Christian idea of the Godhead and also inferior to the Old Testament idea of God.”

Ideas Christian Results Doubt Statements Conception Attributes Investigation Inferiors Testament Inadequate Incomplete Old Testament Barren Jehovah False Gods

Author:Samuel Marinus Zwemer

“Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.”

Art Reality Artist Vision Physics Revolutionary Conception Rooted Anticipate Visionaries Hemisphere

Book:Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light

Source: Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light

“[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.”

Writing Three Revolution Months Died Conception January Three Months

Author:Leon Trotsky

“[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."”

Ideas Revolution Features Characteristics Conception Leon Trotsky

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".”

Years Mind Firsts Two Real Courses Party Struggle Revolution Shapes Tradition Fundamentals Socialism Versions Features Characteristics Conception Proclamation

Author:Leon Trotsky

“For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian adopts) and about which actions or moral rules would contribute to maximizing the good. For the rational intuitionist, there are truths about which actions should be done and not done.”

Should Matter Done Facts Action Moral Rational Conception Utilitarian Maximizing

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them to make them the objects of instrumental reasoning, and then obtain enough reliable information about what actions will best promote them that we could regulate our conduct by these considerations alone.”

Humans Ends Enough Bigs Action Information Objects Theory Reasoning Consideration Conception Definite Flourishing

Author:Allen W. Wood

“In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of the general happiness (or whatever the end is) to establish definite rules for its pursuit.”

People Knows Ends Enough Facts Form Pursuit Conception Definite

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).”

People Thinking Looks Philosophy Theory Committed Absurd Instance Conception Metaphysical Misunderstood Heartless

Author:Allen W. Wood

“We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.”

Way Order Prove Objectives Conception Integrating

Author:Allen W. Wood

“My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.”

Persons States My Own Views Modern Conditions Morality Conception Duality Good Moral

Author:Allen W. Wood

“If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.”

Ifs Knows Winning Sides Religious Teach Know How Baby Conception

Author:Lizz Winstead

“Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.”

Ifs Belief Lost Opinion Essence Forgotten Absence Discussion Phrases Conception Shells Vivid

Author:John Stuart Mill

“A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.”

Matter Political Justice Essentials Institutions Structure Property Conception

Author:John Rawls

“A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.”

Political Virtue Vote Conception Right To Vote Political Life

Author:John Rawls

“The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers."”

Should Social Wealth Security Should Have Function Rational Conception Motivated Isolated Social Security

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.”

Wells Seems Today Courses Felt Modern Circumstances Ideals University Liberalism Conception Founders Adapted Classical Liberalism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined.”

Humans Human Nature Enlightenment Concepts Roots Fundamentals Determined Conception Alienation Romanticism Manuscripts

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.”

Ifs Important Progress Important Things Species Preparation Conception

Author:Laura Huxley

“My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can find a way to build those into the story, then the story becomes a process of deconstructing and heightening and sometimes changing those notions and that makes dramatic tension. The initial statement of your position, and then letting reality act on you to change it, is pretty good storytelling.”

Ifs Way Writing Kind Sometimes Stories Reality Process Position Theory Notion Statements Storytelling Dramatic Tension Conception Nonfiction Initials Good Storytelling

Author:George Saunders

“Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and the proper relationship between a man and his children.”

Men Children Stills Father Social Core Traditional Conception Units Masculinity

Author:Stephen Marche

“An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that nature is, in Hegel's words, 'out and out other' to 'spirit'. It's easy enough to see how 'constructivist' or 'humanist' conceptions are efforts to dispel this fear.”

World Humans Enough Philosophy Spirit Easy Human Beings Effort Concern Aliens Humanist Conception Abiding Hegel Philosophy And Religion

Author:David E. Cooper

“I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term, but as used by some existentialists, it nicely captures what Nietzsche admired - the resolve of an individual person to forge his or her own 'table of values', to be emancipated from strait-jacketing conventions, traditions, and ideologies. As embodied in the 'Overman', authenticity is the antidote to 'bad' nihilism.”

Should Kind Persons Used Values Individual Term Ideals Tradition Tables Authenticity Ideology Resolve Conception Capture Conventions Antidote Nihilism Cultivating Existentialist

Author:David E. Cooper

“I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.”

Humans Moments Values Culture Natural Human Life Conception Natural Death

Author:Ted Cruz

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