Concepts Quotes

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

No concept is a carrier of life.

The concept is to weave in some emotion.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

I like the concept of local education.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

I love the concept of community energy.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

I love colors... as much as I love concepts.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

A fish has no concept of water.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.