I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete. — Helen Rowland 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
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
To me, it seems more realistic to my thought process when things feel a little scattered in the lyrics. Being disjointed is… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler Copy Share Image
This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is. — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality. — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical…music is under two signs, the stars and the wine — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
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