The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of… — Richard Hofstadter 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
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously… — Cassius Jackson Keyser 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
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas… — Anonymous 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
“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a… — Peter van der Linden 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
“Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance — although not nearly as often as many developers believe — but it… — Brian Goetz Copy Share Image
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A… — Rumi 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
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia 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
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or interpret so that it… — Michael Kenna 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
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade,… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and… — Guido van Rossum 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
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
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish… — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — Flannery O'Connor 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
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
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to… — William Powell Copy Share Image
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