"Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of……" — Boyd Rice
"Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature."
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26 Quotes by Boyd Rice
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Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose…
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel…
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People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with…
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Embrace nature's brutal perfection.
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Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into…
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Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to…
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No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike
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There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even…
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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of…
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I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over…
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I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself
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I think I feel automatically at home in Italy
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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