Abstract Quotes

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the… — Ernst Haeckel
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am… — Richard Dawkins
When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed… — Jonathan Ive
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws — Hans Hofmann
If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for… — Mark Edward
Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is… — Hans Zimmer
The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him… — Geoffrey Jellicoe
A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based… — Elwyn Brooks White
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than… — John P. Kotter
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning.… — Julian Huxley
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its… — Walter Lippmann
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! — Lewis Carroll
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she… — Jean Giraudoux
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! — Dante Alighieri
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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