When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

15″General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

We have hundreds of different concepts.

I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people do not have to learn the vast number of formulae they...

To say “all that which does not exist” is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain...

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...

That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There’s no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone’s mind […] I’ve noticed that people who...

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more...

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called “model agnosticism” and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the...

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of...

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition – and added in assumption / projection

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you...

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

I’m always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

I’d say the general concepts are the same. There are a few different looks and things. … There may be more formations than we’ve used in the past.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The...

As we talked about the concepts around the plan over the last couple of weeks, I think we each understood the symbolism of the higher-revenue club and the lower-revenue club being behind the same plan....

…the spring, the summer,The chilling autumn, angry winter, changeTheir wonted liveries; and the mazed worldBy their increase, now knows not which is which.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...