“This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the inscription from Holy Writ which St. Thomas has explained: "The work of justice shall be peace"; a text applicable to the life of a people whether it be considered in itself or in its relations with other nations.” PeopleChristianSpiritPoliticsNationsJusticeEconomyBearsHolyRelationHumanismNobleGenuineLiberalismConceptionInscriptionsSt Thomas Author:Pope Pius XI
“A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.” KnowsGivingSelfOrderSexRelationDeeperGreat ThingsConceptionConqueror Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.” KnowsDoeChangeLosesLossKnowledgeDrawsConceptsRelationConceptionFinality Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus
“Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.” IfsFeelsStatesDreamLife IsCompanyFateShareDivineRelationBitterPhrasesConceptionOur DreamsCaptivesHostage Book:Swann's Way Source: Swann's Way
“The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it” MenScienceCultureUniverseTechnologyInfluenceModernRelationPhysicsRealmsConceptionRevisionModern Physics Author:Fritjof Capra
“For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements.” IfsMenDoeFactsCareLawScienceNumbersStudyExampleElementsRelationExtremesGenuineIronMutualConceptionChemistryUnimportantChemistRarity Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
“All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.” MayIdeasRealUseTruthAsksVoiceTruth IsEssentialsRedRelationTablesMusicalActivePracticalsVainToneChairsConceptionMeaninglessYellowRejectedCognition Author:G. Stanley Hall