#conception

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#blackberry #misconceptions #parents #your

I think the materialist conception of history is valid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#history #i #i think #materialist #think

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. ↗

— David Hume

#alone #attain #belief #conception #ever

As I said, I believe life starts at conception. ↗

— Todd Akin

#conception #i #i believe #life #said

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#between #cat #conception #difference #dog

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conception #else #nothing #speech #than

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#misconception #must #others #ourselves #read