Abstract Quotes

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Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get… — David Foster Wallace
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression… — Soren Kierkegaard
Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either… — Faraaz Kazi
Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. — Rudolf Flesch
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible… — Plato
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. — Dalai Lama
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the… — John Roberts
If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be… — Paul Gilding
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound… — Nicola Chiaromonte
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. — Jim Hodges
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical… — Thomas Cahill
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,… — D. H. Lawrence
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security. — James Gosling
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be… — Julie Taymor
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I… — Ludwig Feuerbach
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer… — Alexander Herzen
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm. — Robert Penn Warren
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance… — William James
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry. — Nina Ananiashvili
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever… — Virgil Thomson

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