Quotes About Concept

I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.