A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded,… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image,… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding… — Novalis Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book.… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms… — William James Copy Share Image
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
