Quotes About Concept

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

What starts out as an intrusive thought can turn into an overwhelming concept if we "feed" it with more negative thinking. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

It appears that many people's concept of heaven is often limited to their physical conceptions of reality.

The most important decision in Christian theology is to decide whether you will speak of God as a person or as a concept, as a name or as an idea. Talk about God as, to use Paul Tillich's term, "ultimate reality," and you will get a safe, dead abstraction that you can utilize in whatever salvation project you happen now to be working. Name God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and God will enlist you in God's move upon the world.

The point of this whole historical exercise is to establish the most important concept in finance, that risk and return are inextricably connected. If you desire the opportunity to achieve high returns, you have to shoulder high risks.

Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to "please" anyone but themselves

Architecture theory is very interesting.

the idea is that the infinite doesn't stand opposed to anything else—it is all-inclusive—while on the other hand, precisely what that is, is a way of contrasting the infinite with the finite. By definition, you can't contrast the infinite with the finite, although that's exactly what you want to do.

humans inventing rules to prevent other humans from getting access to tokens of a human concept, money—which is by its nature not scarce.

Money was no more ever "invented" than music or mathematics or jewelry. What we call "money" isn't a "thing" at all; it's a way of comparing things mathematically, as proportions: of saying one of X is equivalent to six of Y. As such it is probably as old as human thought.

The very fact that we don't know what debt is, the very flexibility of the concept, is the basis of its power.

The utility of "structural" racism for demagogues like Jackson is that even while acknowledging that the vast majority of whites are no longer overtly racist, the concept makes all whites guilty nonetheless. No individual white has to be a racist in actual thought or deed to participate in the racist system or to reap its privileges.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

We can imagine the impossible, provided we do not imagine it in perfect detail and all at once.

Aaronow: Yes. I mean are you actually talking about this, or are we just…Moss: No, we're just…Aaronow: We're just "talking" about it.Moss: We're just speaking about it. (Pause.) As an idea.Aaronow: As an idea.Moss: Yes.Aaronow: We're not actually talking about it.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind