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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought, he would be a stone or a brute.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about opinion, heads, man, thinking

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about happiness, joy, work, man

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Quote by John Adams about invention, imagination, country, man

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about man

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Quote by Laurent Fabius

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Quote by William Godwin about imagination, things

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about pain, mind

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Quote by Walt Disney about opinion, communication, mind, man

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about mind, order, need, eyes, light

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about god, ambition, destiny

We cannot conceive death without the life within us that becomes aware of it.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about life, wisdom, death

We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, wisdom