I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just 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
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been… — Saim .A. Cheeda Copy Share Image
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei 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
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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