Quotes About Concept

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "emergency situation" in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this. Then it will become clear that the task before us is the introduction of a real state of emergency.

Das Werk ist die Totenmaske der Konzeption.

It is in the mind of a single person that creative ideas and concepts are born.

Concepts have meaning only if we can point to objects to which they refer and to the rules by which they are assigned to these objects. In other words, for a concept to make sense you need an operational definition of it, one that describes how you would observe the concept in operation.

That is a challenging concept. We can visualize a curved line or surface, but it is hard to imagine what curved three-dimensional space would be like, much less a curved four dimensions. But for mathematicians, extending the concept of curvature into different dimensions is easy, or at least doable. This involves using the concept of the metric, which specifies how to calculate the distance between two points in space.

El de relatividad es un concepto sencillo. Afirma que las leyes fundamentales de la física son las mismas cualquiera que sea nuestro estado de movimiento.

Learning to read and write disables the oral poet, Lord found: it introduces into his mind the concept of a text as controlling the narrative and thereby interferes with the oral composing processes, which have nothing to do with texts but are 'the remembrance of songs sung

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

One reason alone is enough for today, and that reason lies in the national misconception of what constitutes education. All of your lives you have been trained to believe that your mental equipment consisted of learning how to memorize a multitude of facts. This is what I call parroting a man. To my mind, this inadequate concept of education is the crime of the age.

The abstract idea of a spirit certainly implies that it has neither substance, form, shape, voice, or anything which can render its presence visible or sensible to human faculties.

Your Inner Self-Concept This category can be pretty difficult to achieve in optimal proportions in our culture. Your inner self-concept involves your beliefs about the invisible energy and intelligence that is the most significant portion of your being.

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All this reinforces the concept that Edward O. Wilson dubbed biophilia, which holds that humans are hardwired to find particular scenes of nature calming and restorative.

this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at the gate of perception and make their exit at the gate of purposive action; and whatever cannot show its passports at both those two gates is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason.

This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it.

Hemos dejado atrás el concepto feudalista de que el intelecto es una prerrogativa de clase social, que la inteligencia es una cosa de herencia y del entorno;

You can't translate something that was never in a language in the first place.

Spiritual teachers attempt to teach that which is beyond all thoughts and words. But being in the human condition we use thoughts and words to communicate. Do not get caught up on the teacher, their thoughts or words. Focus on the lesson, the concept. To focus on the sign post, is to miss the message. The message is not the sign post, but where the sign post is pointing.

The broad use of state in Hegelese presents translation problems. Marx's early formulations, in the Hegelian spirit, often come close to counterposing the state concept (the ideal state) against what we would now understand by the term.

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

It is simpler to redefine the meaning of "equal.

The long history of this idea before Kant made it the basis of his Critique of Judgment shows that the concept of taste was originally more a moral than an aesthetic idea.