Quotes of: Concepts Keyword

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

A. J. Liebling

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

Bernard Goldberg

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Jared Diamond

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

Nobu Matsuhisa

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

Brandi Carlile

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

Walter Lang

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he says 'I know not what you mean by God. I am without the idea of God. The word God to me is a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. I ...

The Freethinker's Text-Book: Man: Whence and How? Religion: What and Why?

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorr...

How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism

And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the wise'. The reason for this is th...

Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis

During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical accounts are not direct representations of actual events; they are...

Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy

This popular picture of Marx's 'materialism' - his anti-spiritual tendency, his wish for uniformity and subordination - is utterly false. Marx's aim was that of the spiritual emancipation of man, of his liberation from the chains of economic determin...

Marx's Concept of Man

We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one's own feelings or interests. Because we tend to be biased...

The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools

The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods. For a long time anatomy, and particularly the anatomy of the human body, was the a and ? of scientific knowledge. Further progress ...

Paul R. Ehrlich

Why is it that such a basic education such as not quitting or not giving up is always continued to be taught? When we drive to a destination and hit a stop light or a train do we turn back around no because we will never arrive to that destination pr...

Matthew Donnelly

People are more willing to support the exercise of authority over themselves when they believe it to be an objective, neutral feature of the natural world. This was the idea behind the concept of the divine right of kings. By making the king appear t...

John Hasnas

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.

The Girl in 6E

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

Moon Unit Zappa

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

Adam McKay

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

A. P. Herbert