Concept Quotes

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.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define.

The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept.