#concepts

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#philosophy #theory #words #money

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#concepts #conveys #cultural #current #film

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general. ↗

— Jiang Zemin

#also #applied #believe #both #concepts

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

#anything #being #being famous #concepts #curiosity

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

#concepts #cost #economics #else #idea

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

#almost #children #concepts #dismiss #engaging

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#concepts #glass #magnifying #more #nothing

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#ago #among #combination #compare #concepts