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Famous quotes containing the words immaculate conception, immaculate, conception and/or high:

    “I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)

    “A virgin from her tender infancy,
    Chaste and immaculate in very thought.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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 (1711–1776)

    “Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)