Quotes About Concept

Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for its immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.

It is not possible even to state the doctrine of an atheistic creation without using the language of theism in the statement.

However fierce the controversy surrounding its birth, the stored-program concept now ranks as one of the great ideas of the computer age—arguably the great idea.

AT&T engineers, most of whom had spent a lifetime perfecting their circuit-switching network, found Baran's packet-switching concept ludicrous

with Occam's old razor she could slit the throat of that idea.

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution

When we think language is on one side and reality is on the other, and then puzzle as to how they link up, we forget that we dwell in language and are merely imagining that we can point at them.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I like the concept of local education.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

A concept is useless without an application and an application is useless without courage.

I'm going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . .

Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.