Quotes About Concept

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

The map is more interesting than the territory.

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

In speaking of arithmetic (algebra, analysis) as a part of logic I mean to imply that I consider the number-concept entirely independent of the notions or intuitions of space and time, that I consider it an immediate result from the laws of thought.

One of the great Greek contributions to the very concept of mathematics was the conscious recognition and emphasis of the fact that mathematical entities are abstractions, ideas entertained by the mind and sharply distinguished from physical objects or pictures.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the White Ant.

Der Satz der Mathematik drückt keinen Gedanken aus.

what is the nature of the bridge between the sense perceptions and the concepts?

The concept of human rights had been invented by people who were thinking only of human beings

Encouragement as a concept in psychology has been most influenced by Adler (1946), who proposed that discouragement was at the root of many mental health problems and the seed of destruction in many interpersonal relationships.

Freedom is too abstract a concept: You can't eat it, fuck it, sit under it when it rains or even do very much with it besides get in trouble and have it taken away from you again. Most

Rack?" "You know, R-A-C-K," Mason spelled out. "Risk-aware, consensual kink. It's a level beyond S-S-C." "Safe, sane and consensual," Mark replied, glad he at least knew that one, and feeling foolish that he hadn't heard of RACK before, though he understood and practiced the concept behind it. "Yep.

A God possessed of free will is lesser than a God with a single law. In the same way that a concept is all the more true when it need not transform itself when faced with every individual case. God's perfection is proven more by the impossibility of miracles than the possibility.

I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea.

you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.

Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self, the extent to which a life can be lived according to a philosophical system, or the relation between acts and emotions. That is not their job – unless they are writing the Life of a philosopher. But biography is bound to reflect changing and conflicting concepts about

The whole notion, the whole concept of individual liberty is gone. The whole concept of limited government is gone. The whole concept of the Bill of Rights, the whole concept that the purpose of the Constitution is to limit the government, not limit the people. If you're on the verge of thinking we're losing that, then to me, that's it. That's ballgame. That's nutshell.

previous to the concept of humours, the practice of medicine was often nothing more than ceremonies to drive away evil spirits,

At last she got it: concept is incidental; execution is all.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.