You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“In a life, or a portion of a life illuminated, there's a fullness and a balance that no theory or abstraction can… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of… — Olivo Barbieri Copy Share Image
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side,… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
“If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard 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 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)
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