Quotes About Construct

So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.

Religion refers to concepts, rituals, experiences, and institutions that humans construct based upon their belief in the supernatural, otherworldly, or spiritual. For

Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

Normal is a construct. A story people tell themselves. It's what everyone does—feigns some concept of normalcy. Stories people tell themselves are the only reality humans know.

Urge to come to terms with the Outside, by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

much of what we assume are "natural" units of time are really fences our ancestors constructed in order to corral time. Seconds, hours, and weeks are all human inventions.

Relationships early in life may shape the very neural structures that create representations of experience and allow a coherent view of the world: Interpersonal experiences directly influence how we mentally construct reality.

One of the most important steps in therapy is helping other people take responsibility for their current predicaments, because once they realize that they can (and must) construct their own lives, they're free to generate change.

Documents were destroyed. The archives themselves were in a shocking state after the war. They'd been ransacked by the Nazis, who burned anything that contradicted their worldview. We lost countless irreplaceable manuscripts. For instance, their insistence on an Aryan race. We had document after document proving there's no such thing. It was a construct, a myth, created hundreds of years ago and resurrected by the Nazis.

El lamento nos deja sin energía. No podemos construir sobre el lamento. El temor al futuro nos distrae y nos llena de aprensión.

Never try to go back and repair the past, that is impossible, but be prepared to construct the future which is predictable. . .

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.

When it does not exist, design it.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

It's easier to construct a more palatable life story-where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced-than to face the raw truth.

He is not concerned with arguments to establish a position, as in much traditional philosophy. Rather, he is teaching a skill that is critical and destabilizing, seeking to fracture the artificial unities we construct with our minds, so that we can see differences.

Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.

Yesterday is a history, today is only ours, tomorrow still unknown and is full of uncertainty. Live now and use yesterday to construct a beautiful tomorrow.

Create before you consume.