Concepts Quotes

541 Concepts quotes by 418 unique authors

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle
...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out. — Huangbo Xiyun
. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness,… — Laozi
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance… — Wilhelm Wundt
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a… — Unknown Author
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist… — Hugh Prather
The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which will… — Walter Russell
Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related… — Joseph Barrell
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem,… — Namkhai Norbu
[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions. — Pascal Boyer
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and… — Dee Hock
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation,… — John Polkinghorne
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of… — Gustav Stresemann
It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work. — Hal David
No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who… — Dan Millman
Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for… — Michael Josephson
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy… — Herbert Hoover
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Saint John Chrysostom
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation,… — C.S. Lewis
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous,… — Alan Watts

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