Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“I remember sitting in bed, as a child looking up at the ceiling I couldn’t sleep, of course, And so set about… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of… — Plato Copy Share Image
At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable.… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too… — Paul Laffoley 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
I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by… — Arthur Seyss-Inquart Copy Share Image
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
