Concepts Quotes
541 Concepts quotes by 418 unique authors
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A…
— Laozi
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At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal…
— Hermann Hesse
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
— Unknown Author
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... challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood ...
— Dennis Kucinich
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It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt…
— Wilson Bryan Key
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Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
— Franz von Papen
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Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. .…
— Julian Baggini
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Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and…
— John L. Casti
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Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and…
— Ed Paschke
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When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.
— Frans Johansson
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
— Abdus Salam
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In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical…
— Paola Antonelli
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Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and…
— Etienne Gilson
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If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the…
— Etienne Gilson
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The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These…
— Kate Wilhelm
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In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts…
— Mark Satin
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A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
— Bill Gaede
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Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic,…
— Elisabeth Leamy
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Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have…
— Peter Cundill
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