I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real… — Marshall McLuhan 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
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
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“An abstraction is not a module, or an interface, class, or method; it is a structure, pure and simple-an idea reduced to… — Daniel Jackson Copy Share Image
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 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
The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create… — Alfonso Cuaron 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
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
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The principle of conservation of boson number inside a system is seen to follow directly from the Abstraction Model. The IBMs are… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations… — David Hilbert 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
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve… — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction. — Sidney Coleman Copy Share Image
If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away. — Kelela Copy Share Image
In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home. — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience… — Kim Gordon 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
