Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. — Jean Piaget 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
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this… — Junot Diaz 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
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
