Quotes About Concept

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

Indeed, it is very far from accurate to say that we see with our eyes. The eye is blind but for the idea behind the eye.

All of this is but commentary on the saying that initiated this study, "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (8:32). The organ of reception is not the mind but the whole person. The Greek concepts of "mind" and "reason" play no part in the Fourth Gospel.35

Basically, "righteousness" is a concept of relationship. A person is righteous who has fulfilled the demands laid upon him or her by the relationship in which that person stands.12 It is not a word designating personal ethical character, but faithfulness to a relationship.

widely prevailing view is that justification is the term designating the beginning of the Christian life, while sanctification designates development of that life through the internal work of the Spirit.35 This, however, is an oversimplification of the New Testament teaching, and it obscures an important truth. In fact, the idea of sanctification is soteriological before it is a moral concept.

The truth is implicit in the statement that the gates of Hades shall not prevail against the church (Mt. 16:18). This image of the gates of the realm of the dead is a familiar Semitic concept.

The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.]

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas Tout concept sans intuition est vide

It is of great consequence to have previously determined the concept that one wants to elucidate through observation before questioning experience about it; for one finds in experience what one needs only if one knows in advance what to look for.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

B626 Sein ist offenbar kein reales Prädikat, d.i. ein Begriff von irgend etwas, was zu dem Begriffe eines Dinges, oder gewisser Bestimmungen an sich selbst... B627 Und so enthält das Wirkliche nichts mehr, als das bloss Mögliche. Hundert wirkliche Thaler enthalten nicht das mindeste mehr, als hundert mögliche... Aber in meinem Vermögenszustande ist mehr bei hundert wirklichen Thalern, als bei dem blossen Begriffe derselben, ( d.i. ihrer Moeglichkeit ).

We cannot really love the dead. We love a fantasm that secretly consoles. What love sometimes mistakes for death is a kind of intense suffering, a pain that can be endured and absorbed. But the idea of a real ending, that cannot be envisaged . . . Indeed, in the language of love the concept of an ending is devoid of sense. (So we must go beyond love or utterly change it.)

How had this weird idea been conceived, how had it grown until it seemed inevitable?

Tuesday? My whole concept of the future had crumpled.

Ah wis gaunny say thit Tommy hud a choice; wee Maria disnae. Aw that would huv done wis precipitate an argument aboot whair choice began and ended. How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? Wish tae fuck ah knew. Wish tae fuck ah knew anything.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.

so that one has to say 'I/we/Gaia' as an invented pronoun to express the inexpressible.

el hombre ha tratado siempre de rehuir el concepto de infinitud, ya sea del espacio o del tiempo, como algo imposible de concebir y entender, y por ende, como un concepto con el que no es fácil trabajar ni razonar.

It was not even necessary to formulate that idea as a specific thought.

The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.

The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.

El calendario es un invento humano; el tiempo a nivel spiritual no existe...