Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
“You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique. — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
“ abstraction , n . Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“Long since, the standard way of understanding surface has been as an abstract and undifferentiated plane that functions above all to veil… — Sylvia Lavin Copy Share Image
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image