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“Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.”

“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”

Source: Dynamics of Faith

“Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.”

Persons Limits Concepts Relation Cosmos Rationality

Author:John Forbes Nash

“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.”

Knows Doe Change Loses Loss Knowledge Draws Concepts Relation Conception Finality

Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

“The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”

Self Individual Interest Groups Duty Morality Concepts Relation Self Interest Survival Instinct

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.”

Ifs Men Long Play Lasts Form Order Walks Pleasure Roles Color Concepts Relation Structure Convinced Meaningful Landscape Meaningless Subjective Arbitrary Totality Pedestrians Landscaping

Author:Max Horkheimer

“The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.”

Natural Roles Depends Discipline Concepts Relation Philosophical Including Practicals Clarity Metaphysics Theoretical Natural Science Employing

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

Wall Concepts Relation Absolutes Symbols Existentialism Fabulous Primal Absolute Truth

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.”

Reason Belief Understanding Attention Pure Worship Concepts Relation Awakening Aids Hiv Fetters Scholastics

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.”

Science Deals Learning Concepts Discovery Experience Relation Mathematics Consideration

Book:The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays

Source: The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays

“The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.”

Hands Science Achievement Concepts Connections Accounts Relation Aim Primaries Minimum Comprehension Totality Employing

Author:Albert Einstein

“What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.”

Science Language Understanding Concepts Accounts Relation Regard Strive Clarity Data Mutual Strife Sensory Correspondence

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.”

“The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.”