Quotes About Concepts

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

If we imagine that our words are like arrows, then we can say that those arrows always fall short of the heavenly realm to which we aim them. In short, an emerging discourse acknowledges that speaking of God is never speaking of God but only ever speaking about our understanding of God.

For Anselm there are three levels of existence. The first, and lowest, level is that which exists only in the mind (for instance, a unicorn). The second refers to those things that exist both in the mind and in reality (such as a horse). The third level is that which exists in reality but which cannot be contained in the mind (i.e. God). It is this third level of existence that has often been overlooked by the Church, and yet it is here that we find God.

The concepts in Marketing 5.0 are, thus, tools-agnostic. Companies can implement the methods with any supporting hardware and software available in the market. The key is that those companies must have marketers who understand how to design a strategy that applies the right technology for various marketing use cases.

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.

Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer.

Pensar é esquecer diferenças, é generalizar, abstrair.

The history of psychiatry shows that many ideas and concepts that once had attained the status of incontrovertible facts were later discarded as nothing more than myths or superstitions. We are forced to the realization that the study of the nature and treatment of the neuroses--or emotional disorders--does not rest on any proven theorems or generally shared assumptions.

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.

De la paleta de conceptos que estudia la filosofía política, este libro analiza cinco: la justicia social, la libertad, la igualdad, la comunidad y la democracia.

Modern Western thought is characterized by an extensive use of abstract concepts that exist and operate within a more general abstract system. Jewish thought, on the other hand, has, with very few exceptions, done without them. Abstract concepts are not to be found in the Bible, the Talmud, or even in relatively modern Hasidic texts.

Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,

Children are not passive absorbers of knowledge; rather, they are active constructors of concepts

no such concepts can have definitions: they only have histories. But if they only have histories, then the only way to understand them is historically ? and that is what animates my work, the belief that if we are going to understand any of the concepts we use to organise our social, moral, and political world, we shall have to study them historically

the concepts of libertas and libertà came to be employed 'almost as technical terms of Florentine politics and diplomacy' in the course of the fourteenth century, and that they were almost invariably used in order to express the same ideas of independence and self-government

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Kant insisted that the mind has access to preexisting concepts and ideas, which enable us to process the information gathered by our senses. Kant called these preexisting concepts "transcendental forms." Through them, we come to knowledge by intuition, even apart from experience.

When you keep your imagination busy with noble, Godlike concepts and ideas, you will find that it is the most effective of all faculties in your ongoing spiritual quest.

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace and good will and wonders will happen in your

That is what is meant by the proposition omne ens est verum (everything that is, is true)—though we have almost ceased to understand it—and by the complementary proposition that being and truth are interchangeable concepts. (What does truth mean, where things are concerned, the truth of things? "A thing is true" means: it is known and knowable, known to the absolute spirit, knowable to the spirit that is not absolute.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas