Constructs Quotes
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.
Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
Time, money, etc... are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up.
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.
There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts