The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived and disseminated throughout the world by Western civilization; knowledge whose nature has be...
The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another) -the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was...
I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science and am always keen to attack it in most situations, though not here, because I love Reason and I'm perfectly aware of the difference. I also know what ...
For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science Fiction is so important is because SF authors create the future. They bring through ideas, tech...
Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.
A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.
...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.
…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity.” - Dami K.
I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
