Constructs Quotes

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide

Life, Alone, Everything

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
Deepak Chopra

Body, Activity, Becomes

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Robert Anton Wilson

Mind, Reality, Space

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag

Painter, Discloses

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie

Human, Reality, Acceptance

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
Abdolkarim Soroush

Nature, Society, Forget

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Kathryn Bigelow

Character, Simple, Quieter

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
Galen Rowell

Brain, Support, System

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
Paul Ricoeur

Character, Her, Makes

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier

True, Self, Lives

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.
Richard Ford

Character, Idea, Normal

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
Ray Kurzweil

Wisdom, Brain, Dream

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Kristin Hersh

Music, Play, Media

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith

Reality, Two, Order

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