Concept Quotes

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Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other… — Kurt Vonnegut
Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending… — Sue Thoele
We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on… — Jan Phillips
When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience… — Peter Shepherd
Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to… — Sigurd F. Olson
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. — James Hunter
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball.… — Bill McKibben
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is… — Bertrand Russell
Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged… — Hunter S. Thompson
Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that. — Yelawolf
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. — Arthur Schopenhauer
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated… — Hans Arp
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never… — Margaret Kennedy
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department… — Erich Fromm
At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy… — Steve Almond

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