#concept

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#destroyer #empire #ethics #evil #i

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conception #else #nothing #speech #than

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#believe #concepts #guy #harsh #his

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. ↗

— Albert Camus

#concept #essential #first #truth

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#concept #into #pool #private #private property

If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dedication #funny #hard-work #idea #location

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#cause #did #film #had #hopes

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#else #emanate #expression #finding #itself