“If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.” IfsKnowsMeanDifferentWishConceptsExcitementDifferent ThingsGod Knows Author:Connie Nielsen
“I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.” PeopleThinkingShouldIdeasWishTermFeminismConceptsEmbraceScaryEvolveUmbrellaConflicting Ideas Author:Merritt Wever
“Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.” IfsMindIdeasSelfRealityWishSocialProcessInterestImaginationObjectsEvolutionDrawsConceptsOrganizationCamerasStructureScholarDefiniteRevealingSelf InterestMundaneConstraintsDigestionCandidPortrayingSocial OrganizationIconographyCandid Camera Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.” HumansPersonsMadeTogetherWishSinCommonExistencePrinciplesConceptsTragedyInjusticeTheologyCommon SenseAbstractRevelationsEnterpriseCosmicCatastropheArbitraryStarting OverTheologicalShipwreckUniversality Author:Paul F. M. Zahl
“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.” IfsMindArtMadeWisdomHandsHopeWishKnowledgeWiseProductsActivityConceptsConsequenceEssenceExperienceComplexesNotionRelatedAbstractLogicalMutualOur ThoughtsSpontaneousAssertion Author:Albert Einstein
“Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.” LoveBelieveWholeWisdomMightLyingHopeWishKnowledgeConceptsUniversalSpeciesWelfareUniversal LoveSelfish Gene Author:Richard Dawkins
“I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.” PeopleWritingDreamWould BeWishGoalCommunityStudentsMembersAmbitionProjectsConceptsImpactMissionsInvolvingCubesStudent Life Author:Scott Cohen