Quotes About Concepts

Chisels and hammers may suffice to work a piece of wood, but for etching we require an etcher's needle. Thus common sense and speculative understanding are both useful, but each in its own way: the former in judgments which apply immediately to experience; the latter when we judge universally from mere concepts, as in metaphysics, where sound common sense, so called in spite of the inappropriateness of the word, has no right to judge at all.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

Zones are easier just to throw out there and you don't have to really teach it.

Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another.

My focus is films, and 'Angela's Eyes' is one of those TV projects that has some good TV concepts behind it and good writing.

I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.

Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept. However

If your private actions do not generalize, then you cannot have general ideas.

Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept.

Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots in words.

We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.

to show people how lacking in clarity they were in their thoughts, how little they knew about the concepts they used routinely

Statistical inference is really just the marriage of two concepts that we've already discussed: data and probability (with a little help from the central limit theorem).

Language does control how you think, and if you don't have a word for it, you won't think of it.

We continue to see summer as a great place for unique concepts, innovative business models, and passionate television audiences.

The videogame industry is really weird because it's an industry that's highly conservative. People see the technology evolving every month, but when we talk about concepts, what people really want is for things to remain the same.

We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life' beautifully.

In today's world the enemy lies within the people; the people are the vital ground, and the aim is not physical occupation of the enemy's territory but occupation of people's minds with the concepts of democracy and freedom.

Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.