Quotes About Concepts

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

theology requires metaphors and concepts that come from our understanding of nature and therefore from science.

Many humans remain obsessed with the existence of hell. Their concepts are often primitive and heavily influenced by their religions. The

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or fear of the group's members and places responsibility where it is warranted.

The phrases 'certainty is an illusion' and 'think probabilistically about the world', both introduced in the first class, are the first two examples of high-level concepts which Dan calls airport ideas.

Pure greed and pure generosity are complementary concepts; neither could really be imagined without the other;

It is basically a theological debate. Essentially the question is: are humans innately good or innately evil? But if you think about it, the question, framed in these terms, makes very little sense. 'Good' and 'evil' are purely human concepts. It would never occur to anyone to argue about whether a fish, or a tree, were good or evil, because 'good' and 'evil' are concepts humans made up in order to compare ourselves with one another.

No tenemos una idea perfecta de nada más que de una percepción. Una substancia es enteramente diferente de una percepción. Por consiguiente, no tenemos una idea de substancia.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

There is no such thing as a false idea.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.