#constructs

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

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Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

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Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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