Quotes About Concept

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

The entire point of life was the ability to make one's own choices. Foreknowledge of anything—especially the circular kind, such as Kashkari's presence at Eton because he'd dreamed of it—was terribly limiting and ran counter to the concept of free will.

Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is more than just a word; hope is an abstruse concept, meaning different things to each of us during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know its hold on the human mind, and the mind of the electorate.

If you are white, you have an obligation to at least understand where the concept of whiteness comes from and to decide how you will proceed with that knowledge. I hope your journey will include an intentional choice to acquire dexterity.

But according to Buddhist philosophy, self-identity, the "I," is a creation of the mind; we create self-identity because it's convenient and useful in certain ways. We must use self-identity to live responsibly in society, but we should realize that it is merely a tool, a symbol, a sign, or a concept. Because it enables us to think and discriminate, self-identity allows us to live and function.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

The fact is that fairness is a human concept. The rest of the universe knows nothing of it.

the possession of a term does not bring a process or a practice into being; concurrently one may practice theorizing without ever knowing/possessing the term.

CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools.

We must recognize, however, that intrinsic value is an elusive concept.

The concept of safety can be really useful only if it is based on something more tangible than the psychology of the purchaser.

particularly as to whether they have a clear concept of the differences between investment and speculation and between market price and underlying value.

His age was not something of which he'd been unaware—each birthday had been a ritualized reminder of his loss of youth, each New Year's Eve a prompter of the passing of time—but he now understood emotionally what before he had comprehended only as an intellectual concept.

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

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Os conceitos da vida e do mundo que chamamos filosóficos são produto de dois fatores: um, constituído de fatores religiosos e éticos herdados; o outro, pela espécie de investigação que podemos denominar científica, empregando a palavra em seu sentido mais amplo.

We are uttering a mere tautology if we mean by 'in the mind' the same as by 'before the mind', i.e. if we mean merely being apprehended by the mind.

When an individual partakes of an idea, the individual and the idea are similar; therefore there will have to be another idea, embracing both the particulars and the original idea. And there will have to be yet another, embracing the particulars and the two ideas... ad infinitum. Thus every idea, instead of being one, becomes an infinite series of ideas.

When an individual partakes of an idea, the individual and the idea are similar; therefore there will have to be another idea, embracing both the particulars and the original idea. And there will have to be yet another, embracing the particulars and the two ideas, and so on ad infinitum. Thus every idea, instead of being one, becomes an infinite series of ideas.

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

I've been on both sides; I've interviewed people, and I do an okay job, I guess. But it's awful. Because you feel like you have to defend your life, which is such an interesting concept. It's not an easy process to sit down and talk about, 'What's your motivation?' Because as I'm answering, I'm working it out for myself at the same time.

A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept... The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is it is analogous to insurance against the risk of a credit default by your counterparty, your business counterpart.