Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.
Our actual lives, including our values, our social relations, our self-conceptions, and many of our concepts, are pervasively shaped both by the knowledge and by the fact that we will someday die - that we are subject to extreme temporal scarcity. There is no reason to think that, if we were immortal, the same things would continue to matter to us. We have little or no idea what, if anything, would matter to immortal beings, or even how such beings would think of themselves.
I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.
If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life. ” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.
Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
I don't cook 'concepts. ' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.
In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.
Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters. ' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.