We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade,… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or interpret so that it… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched… We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most… — Tom Coughlin Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish… — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets,… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life as observed only from the scientific point of view is bare abstraction; it is not concrete life; nor is life as… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably… We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
“We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
![“This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a…” quote by Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/595/edward-said-6412_abstraction_this-terrorists-attacks-on-9-11-was-part_2025625.jpg)
![“In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic, thought is indifferent toward its objects. Whether they are mental or physical, whether they pertain to society or to nature, they become subject to the same…” quote by Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/520/herbert-marcuse-3589_abstraction_in-aristotle-s-formal-logic-thought-is-o_2545308.jpg)
![“I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have…” quote by Tucker Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ee/tucker-carlson-1798_abstraction_i-m-not-trying-to-be-mean-you-nicholas-k_395370.jpg)
![“We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. Hermann Weyl, The…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e1d/anonymous-1_abstraction_we-now-come-to-the-decisive-step-of-math_607659.jpg)
