Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.
Italy is a geographical concept.
I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.
Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.
Details - that's what it comes down to, so you're always learning more about a play or a concept.
We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
The definition of love keeps evolving.
God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.
Privacy is not really a concept in Japan.
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
Truth is a necessary phantom.
Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.
The concept of time shuts off eternity.
Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.
I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
The idea should come first, the startup should come second.
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.
Ideas control the world.
