Abstract Quotes

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Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in… — Anthony Giddens
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your… — P.J. O'Rourke
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly… — Michael Ignatieff
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate â€˜knowledgeâ€™ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and… — G. C. Berkouwer
For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve… — Goh Chok Tong
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa
Iâ€™ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and theyâ€™re still interesting to… — William Eggleston
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue… — Fernando Pessoa
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless. — Jonas Mekas
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways… — Noam Chomsky
Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you,… — Tomas Transtromer
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become… — Michael Shermer
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male… — Pam Gems
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others… — Robert Breault
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… — William Butler Yeats
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as… — Derek R. Audette
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world… — David Graeber

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