Concepts Quotes
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We must find ways to rework our concepts and practices of human virtue and identity as they have been conceived, since at least the time of the Greeks, as exclusive of and discontinuous with the devalued orders of the feminine, of subsistence, of materiality and of non-human nature.
Val Plumwood
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Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
Gerard Cox
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You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.
Ed Paschke
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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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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
Richard Matheson
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Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
Hannah Arendt
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God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
Francis Chan
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Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.
Rick Perry
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If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
Sean Bean
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Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.
Roma Downey
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Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I love colors... as much as I love concepts.
Genco Gulan
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I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.
Muhammad Yunus
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Time is a person-made concept.
Ned Vizzini
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I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.
Michel Onfray
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
Lois McMaster
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Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
Ernst Mayr
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The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.
Richard Madden
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Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
Miguel de Unamuno
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What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.
Simon Sinek
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It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.
Norman Dodd
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I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.
Tommy Hilfiger