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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
Illusion
Values
Nothing
Relative
Thoroughly
System
Morality
Emotional
Mere
True
Conception
Vulgar
Sound
Which
Based
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
Buddha
Truth
Wise
Man
Wise Man
World
Will
Build
Dissolved
Compounds
Sees
Remain
Foolish
Self
He
Idea
Thus
Conception
Sorrow
Well
Which
Again
Ground
Right
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.
Rollo May
Positive
Alone
Loneliness
Solitude
Values
Omnipotent
Threat
Prospect
Conception
Times
Frightened
Being
Being Alone
Little
Persons
Painful
Many
Even
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini
State
Keystone
Aims
Relative
Absolute
Individuals
Conception
Doctrine
Essence
Fascism
Fascist
Groups
Functions
Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
Billy Graham
Death
Construction
Human Being
Every
Conception
Human
Being
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sad
You
Memory
Past
Harmonious
Elude
Find
Remain
Sadder
Conception
Forever
Than
Again
Inadequate
Present
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.
Ellen Key
Life
Man
Woman
Women
Conflict
Men
Intimidated
Has-Been
Insight
Life Experiences
Purity
Between
Conception
Learn
Because
Been
Womanly
Confessions
Experiences
Conventional
Regard
Justly
Should
Deep
Her
Desired
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
Life
Man
Dog
Own
No Difference
Cat
Advantage
Idea
Between
Conception
Human
Difference
Whether
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Steven Pinker
Life
Old
Goodness
Sense
Meaning Of Life
Our
Topic
Moral
Worthy
Morality
Gives
Conception
Close
Any
Human
Just
Human Beings
Psychology
Meaning
Meaning Of
Us
Beings
Each
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Adrienne Clarkson
You
Will
Glorious
Creation
Society
Added
Our
Those
Horizon
Noble
Like
Piece
Conception
Cathedrals
Builder
Artful
Stone
Which
Your
Medieval
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
Charles Krauthammer
Respect
Believe
Moral
Religious
Embryo
More
Conception
Also
Am
Equivalent
Than
Conferred
Human
Personhood
Appendix
Deserves
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson
Stupid
Only
Could
Supported
Goodly
Conception
Also
Without
Mothers
Narrow-Minded
Scientist
Scientists
Dull
Contrast
Just
Newspapers
Realizing
Successful
Popular
Number
When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society.
Abby Johnson
Death
Rights
Dignity
Natural
Matter
Believe
Society
Say
Until
Conception
Equal
Make
Equal Rights
Contribution
Human
Human Dignity
Mean
Persons
Stand
Moment
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
Bryant H. McGill
Education
Past
Own
Our
Minds
Rather
Misconceptions
Conception
Powers
Than
Accumulate
Should
Use
Reason
Prepare
Filling
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
Work
Time
Down
Every
Pleasure
Weighed
Consumes
Conception
Escaping
Forgetting
Sensation
Us
Means
Choose
Moment
Let Us
Strengthens
Two
Nightmare
Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Work
Art
All The Difference
Conception
Makes
Boy
Brain
Difference
Fundamental
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
Giacomo Casanova
God
Severe
Those
Punishment
Possibility
Admit
Only
Most
Conception
Non-Existence
His
Ceases
Itself
Who
Suffer
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
Malcolm X
Feeling
Other
Hundreds
Brotherhood
He
Conception
Concern
Him
American
Millions
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Made
Rest
Earth
Those
Insane
Would
Remains
Know
Conception
Opposite
Reflected
Heavens
Middle
Moves
Regard
Center
Sanctioned
Centuries
Who
Many
Assertion
Consensus
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
Ramana Maharshi
Time
Events
Determined
Through
Conception
Go
Body
Activities
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.
Noam Chomsky
Time
Own
Every
Think
Thinking
Every Time
Else
I Think
Topics
Out
Evolved
Kind
Find
Religious
Some
About
Someone
My Own
Over
Conception
Practically
Course
Renounce
Cult
Odd
Years
Very
Views
Beliefs
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert
Together
People
Word
Sheep
Living
Admired
Spirit
Cross
Having
Only
Conception
Without
Years
Lack
Twenty-Five
Two
Two People
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
Alice Walker
Own
Creation
Universe
Those
Responsible
Relive
Thrill
Shall
Conception
Cheerful
Partnership
Anything
Them
Realize
Create
Who
Helped
Keeps
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
Alveda King
Death
Man
Woman
Happy
Marriage
Natural
People
Value
Jobs
One-Man
Between
Until
Conception
Person
Successful
Should
Lives
Need
The period from conception to two is about the development of a baby's emotional capacities. Mum saying, 'Oh, darling, I love you,' and singing baby songs and pulling faces literally stimulates the synapses in the brain.
Andrea Leadsom
Love
Saying
You
Singing
Baby
Darling
About
Faces
Emotional
Songs
Development
Conception
Period
Stimulates
Brain
Oh
Love You
Literally
Capacities
Mum
Two
Pulling
When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.
Andrew Yang
Work
Thought
Jobs
Kind
Some
Brown
Had
Conception
Well
Sure
Limited
Very
Graduated
Wanted
Should
Paid
Figured
Basically
Careers
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