Abstract Quotes

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The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its… — Michel Chion
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures. — Henri Poincare
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if… — James A. Michener
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to… — Richard Marcinko
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete… — Sam Keen
Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the… — Vassily Ivanchuk
What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not… — Azam Ali
This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to… — Walter Russell
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges… — Dan Meyer
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. — Atom Egoyan
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion,… — H. P. Blavatsky
At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney… — Tim Ferriss
You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win — Percy Foreman
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are… — Freya Stark
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because… — Will Self
True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things… — Baruch Spinoza

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