Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
