Quotes About Concept

The form is the possibility of the structure.

The thought is the significant proposition

For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.

Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here. Oh, we don´t travel at the speed of anything, Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkle.

As anyone who has ever started with a high concept and then worked backward to find numbers to fit the theory knows, it is not unusual for the theory to make a lot of sense "in hindsight.

Your propensity to succeed in life is largely dependent on your understanding of the concept, your ability to discover your purpose, and your willingness to pursue and act on your purpose.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

assemble and disperse, everything changes and is transformed, but no-o-othing can ever change from being to not-being. Not even the tiniest hair growing on the tail of some virus. The concept of infinity is indeed open, infinitely open, but at the same time it is also closed and hermetically sealed. Nothing leaves and nothing enters.

Perhaps we have built a false concept of wholeness and, under the pressure of an artificial unity, people like June explode and fly in all directions. Some day we may be reassembled into a more truthful whole.

the invention of celebrity, a concept made possible by new technologies for the cheap dissemination of images.

Di una data cosa la lingua ne esprime il concetto, mentre della medesima cosa il dialetto ne esprime il sentimento.

It's clear that identity is a finite concept. What's not clear is the location of its boundaries.

I was impressed with the giant Carrefours stores in Brazil, which got me started on a campaign to bring home a concept called Hypermart—giant stores with groceries and general merchandise under one roof.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

From Soloviëv, Mady naturally turned to Berdyaev, and while speaking of Slavery and Freedom—the concept of Sobornost—she opened the jar of pickled herring.

Common sense isn't a real thing. And its ugly cousin, fairness, is a concept invented so dumb people could participate in arguments.

Trump could have simply said he wanted better immigration control, but that would not have been good visual persuasion. Concepts without images are weak sauce. So instead, Trump sold us a mental image of a "big, beautiful wall." He said "wall" so many times that we all started to picture it. Before long, we started seeing artists' renderings of potential walls. Even the opposition media started running videos of existing walls and walls in other countries.

Trump was also smart enough to be vague about the details of the wall so that each of us could imagine the wall we wanted to imagine. He could have easily provided his own artists' renderings of the wall, but that would have been a mistake. It would have given critics lots of targets to attack. But there is one kind of wall that is hard to criticize: the one that is entirely different in each person's head.

So viel versichre ich dir: ich bin über die wichtigsten Punkte mehr als gewiß, und obgleich die Erkenntnis sich ins Unendliche erweitern könnte, so hab' ich doch vom Endlich-Unendlichen einen sichern, ja klaren und mitteilbaren Begriff.

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Population thinking is itself a population of mental and public things. Philosophers' discussions of what population thinking really is are members of this population. So is the text you just read, and so is your reading of it.

There is, as we shall see, a real and precise difference between the number zero and the concept of a set that posesses no members - the null, or empty set. Indeed, the second idea, pointless as it sounds, turns out to be by far the most fruitful of the two. From it, all of the rest of mathematics can be created step by step.