#concepts

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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