#conception

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#changes #clear #conception #function #mind

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#easier #facts #fit #ignore #preconceptions

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires. ↗

— Javier Marías

#life #preconceptions #life

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#cartoons #conception #draw #encouraged #gag

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conception #go #i #man #office

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. ↗

— George Soros

#basis #bubbles #distorted #grow #market

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conception #evil #form #free #good

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#common #conceptions #considerable #considerable number #economic