Concept Quotes

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. (Leonhard Euler)
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. View quote
John Lennon
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. View quote
Ernst Mayr
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. View quote
George F. Kennan
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists... View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. View quote
Don DeLillo
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. View quote
Albert Camus
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. View quote
Frank Herbert
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. (Gustav Stresemann)
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. View quote
Laurette Taylor
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking. View quote
Edward de Bono
Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind. (Gottlob Frege)
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. View quote
Tadao Ando
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff