Quotes about Concepts

so many theological terms, words like 'monotheism' are late constructs, convenient shorthands for sentences with verbs in them, and that sentences with verbs in them are the real stuff of theology

Or to a different law that hasn't been demonstrated and that we haven't even thought of yet that says that you can doubly not exist in the same place?

Since (1) charity is supernatural, and comes only from the real presence of God in the soul (St. Thomas' paragraph 3), and since (2) all men, and not only Christians, are capable of charity (as has been proved in the paragraph above), it follows that (3) all men are capable of accepting the real presence of God in their souls, even if they have defective or mistaken concepts of God.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.

To reach truth is not to accumulate knowledge, but to awaken to the heart of reality. Reality reveals itself complete and whole at the moment of awakening. In the light of this awakening, nothing is added and nothing is lost; but emotions that are based on concepts can no longer affect a man.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.