Abstract Quotes

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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects… — Blaise Pascal
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is… — Jean Vanier
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are… — Kenneth Tynan
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up… — Gabor Mate
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. — Gustave Moreau
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually… — Freydoon Rassouli
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the… — Auguste Comte
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain… — Leon Foucault
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very… — Ellen Gallagher
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they… — Jeff Bezos
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and… — Rei Kawakubo
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to… — George Ripley
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply… — Oscar Wilde
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through… — George Orwell
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory,… — Ernest Hemingway
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille

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