Quotes About Concept

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

I've been one of the image-makers who created this concept of perfection. I've done a thousand magazine covers where I'm celebrating Hollywood, glamorous people. Which is all good. It's all entertainment.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

Plus, once you got used to the concept of interfacing with leeches, it didn't hurt all that much to stick them on.

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born.

Love is just another idea. And ideas are perfect, but executions of ideas are not.

Without the idea of the indefinite, mathematics would have halted at addition and subtraction, and never have risen through geometry to astronomy.

In its origin the idea of right is so simple, so humble, one may say, that philosophers have gone elsewhere for its explanation.

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

But I do see the phrase "kingdom of God" as central to Jesus. As I have argued elsewhere, I see it as a metaphor or symbol with a range of meanings rather than as a concept with a single meaning. In the message and activity of Jesus, its meanings include the following.

the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Metaphor is a way of thought long before it is a way with words.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.

She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero.