If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.
Concepts become forces when they resist one another
There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.
I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
Challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood.
The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid. As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
People don't understand this: Ideas are important, but they're not essential. What's essential and important is the execution of the idea. Everyone has had the experience of seeing a movie and saying, "Hey! That was my idea!" Well, it doesn't mean anything that you had that idea. There's no such thing as an original concept. What's original is the way you re-use ancient concepts.
Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.
New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves
The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.