Fundamental Concept Quotes

There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is . . . what you get other people to believe.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.