Coins Quote by Abdolkarim Soroush

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus…

— George Lakoff

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts…

— Niels Bohr

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division…

— Fritjof Capra

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept…

— Albert Einstein

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is…

— Hans Kramers

In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries…

— Terence McKenna

“That which we never question is the concept itself. But what is a concept? Is it necessary to put the idea of a concept…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“... we can define concept as a logical, mental construction of one or more relationships. [...] It is purely mental, is logical, and can…

— Don E. Ethridge

Concepts are mental images.

— Paul Virilio

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that…

— Rudolf Steiner

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

— Abdus Salam