Concept Quotes

“Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Let people embrace their elected god or let them create one if they feel inspired. In case some want to share, it may be fun but if they don’t fancy the concept, they should be free to recant. (“Is Heaven a place in the sky?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I’m sure you've heard the adage "thoughts are things" or perhaps "believe and you will achieve". There are variations on these principles, but they drill down to the same basic concept; it's a mindset and it works.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.”
― Suzy Kassem

“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man....For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. This you may say of man—when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. This you may say and know it and know it. This you may know when the bombs plummet out of the black planes on the market place, when prisoners are stuck like pigs, when the crushed bodies drain filthily in the dust. You may know it in this way. If the step were not being taken, if the stumbling-forward ache were not alive, the bombs would not fall, the throats would not be cut. Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live—for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live—for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken. And this you can know—fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“It was mostly just the concept of eating a cock that Matthew found so challenging, irrespective of which animal it came from.”
― Matthew Bracey, Steel Dogs

“If I could somehow know the future,
then now should not be like this time.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Forever means losing count of years.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit, a species, when integrated with others into a wider genus. For instance, “table” is a species of the genus “furniture,” which is a species of the genus “household goods,” which is a species of the genus “man-made objects.” “Man” is a species of the genus “animal,” which is a species of the genus “organism,” which is a species of the genus “entity.”
― Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“One of the first steps toward gaining expertise in math and science is to create conceptual chunks—mental leaps that unite separate bits of information through meaning. Once you chunk an idea or concept, you don’t need to remember all the little underlying details; you’ve got the main idea—the chunk—and that’s enough.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Ne făurim concepte mentale despre căminul nostru, despre copaci, despre alți oameni, despre electricitatea care curge din prize, despre atomi, molecule și alte universuri. Aceste concepte mentale sunt singura realitate pe care o cunoaștem.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.”
― Vladan Kuzmanovic

“Anamodernity is an act of reality, a real paradigm, an act-concept, not a pre-concept.”
― Vladan Kuzmanovic

“Theory is the concept of art.”
― Vladan Kuzmanovic

“Indeed, our love is only worth what they accept! Those who speak has no humility! Who we see on the outside is a reflection of who we are on the inside! The man of god is one who strive to be just like Jesus! It's a humbling experience to hear the words of wisdom spoken from swine themselves.

It is the truth that lies behind not remembering. Every ounce of spit is the truth to your lies. And that intimates you so bad to your core.

You only hate someone because she came into your life not only changed it, but disrupted your whole concept and belief that you are unable to acknowledge the fact, you are a pathological lair.

Dedicated to my ex (Leng “KT Johnson” Xiong)”
― Candy Lee

“A wise man once said, “Time doesn't exist. Time is a man-made concept used to perceive something that we can neither explain nor experience to the fullest due to our limited sense of perception. More precisely, time is an abstract concept that is used to measure the worldly distance between different events. The only time we have is now!” The wise man happened to be me.”
― Kei Kaiser, Still Searching

“Explaining a single thing - should not take more than a word.

Optimization.”
― Monaristw

“Concept is as good as thought.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Lügen verderben mehr als den Stil, sie verderben die Sprache. Und es gibt keine Therapie für die verdorbenen Wörter; man muß sie aus der Sprache ausstoßen. [...] Wir werfen einen Blick auf zwei Wörter der deutschen Sprache, mit denen viel gelogen worden ist. Ich meine das Wort "Blut" und das Wort Boden". Beide Wörter können heute noch so unbekümmert gebraucht werden, wie eh und je. [...] Aber es ist keinem Deutschen mehr möglich, die beiden Wörter zu verbinden. Mit "Blut und Boden" kann man nur noch lügen [...]. Es liegt daran, das die beiden Wörter [...] sich gegenseitig Kontext geben.”
― Harald Weinrich, La lingua bugiarda. Possono le parole nascondere i pensieri?

“Words are treacherous.”
― Stefano Barragato, Zen Light

“You can lie to yourself through delusions, by repeating some thought or concept until it resembles some essence of truth.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“Belief is based upon accepting a specific truth exists within your concept of reality, yet if some such concept can't sustain itself in the real world then indeed it must be assumed a lie.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“Hegels goal in the 'Objectivity' section is to show that the objective universality of the genus is not simply the necessary context of predication but also the necessary context of something's existence and reality, an objective context that determines the degree to which self-determining activity can be realized. In the present chapter, I will argue that mechanical, chemical, and teleological processes all manifest varying degrees of acitivty, but it is only when Hegel arrives at the determination of internal purposiveness in the chapter on 'Teleology' that self-determining activity is fully realized. Whereas the treatment of the subjective Concept was primarily focused on the forms and operations of thought, the treatment of objectivity concerns the objective reality and existence of the Concept, and the degree to which that objective reality can be understood as part of processes of self-determination.”
― Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic

“Non-derivative and concrete individuals are always self-individuating individuals, and this activity of self-individuation (or self-relating negativity) is manifest immediately in the activity of form of living beings. Indeed, this is why Hegel begins the chapter on 'Life' with a discussion of 'the living individual.' Individuality is immediately manifest in the living being, or the living being immediately posits itself as an individual, dividing itself from what it is not, because it matters to the living being that it is itself and not something else: first, that it is itself and not a piece of inert, dead matter; second, that is it itself and not substitutable for another member of the same species; third, that it is itself and not a member of another species. Only beings that can be for themselves can point things out for them as an individual this, and so for Hegel, anything that is individual only on account of being pointed out by something outside itself is not an individual in the strict sense. Rocks, clouds, lumps of coal, and drops of water are thus mere particulars rather than individuals. In the context of the ontological proof, then, the being that is identical with the Concept is its own activity, and this activity posits itself as self-determining individuality.”
― Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic

“The concept of God is the center of Christ's messenge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Having to pay for everything is a western concept, driven by banks.”
― Steven Magee