Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
'Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini? — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted.… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was… — Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park Copy Share Image
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
