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Letter "C" » conceiving
«God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
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«All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
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«For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; / In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
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«I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Religion
| Keywords:
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«I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
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«If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.»
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