If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils… — William James Copy Share Image
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth;… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
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