#concept

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#conception #dead #experience #experiences #gain

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone. ↗

— Bernard Goldberg

#concept #evening #evening news #gone #news

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #folks #just #people #seem

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#betterment #concept #content #essential #ideal

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#automatic #car #concept #drive #how

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#conception #fact #in fact #judgement #kind

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. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#concepts #histories #homesickness #incapable #individuals

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. ↗

— Karl Urban

#always #attempting #come #concept #dream

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. ↗

— John Cleese

#close #concept #damn #england #god