Concepts Quote by Michelangelo Antonioni

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

— Edward Snowden

“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

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

— Don DeLillo

The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Concepts are mental images.

— Paul Virilio

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try…

— David Chalmers

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

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic…

— George Santayana

the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in…

— Zeno Vendler

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate…

— Artie Shaw