An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Intellectualization complicates truth as it abstracts from what is.” — Omar Delawar Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. — William James Copy Share Image
“At the core,” means,” is an implementation and capability is an abstraction.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
“An abstraction is not a module, or an interface, class, or method; it is a structure, pure and simple-an idea reduced to… — Daniel Jackson Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
“Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.” — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the notion of looking at a group of “somethings” (such as cars, invoices, or executing computer programs) and realizing that… — Peter van der Linden Copy Share Image
I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no… — William James Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
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![“You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f06/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_you-end-up-beating-your-head-against-a-w_1547558.jpg)
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