Abstract Quotes

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"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith
Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves… — Joanna Macy
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not… — Isaac Asimov
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of… — Peter Kreeft
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand… — Alexander Morozevich
I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight,… — Barack Obama
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They… — Gerhard Richter
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as… — Richard M. Nixon
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but… — Leo Tolstoy
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an… — Alan Watts
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. — Auguste Comte
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost… — Edsger Dijkstra
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. — Howard Berman
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it… — Matthew Barney
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our… — George Lakoff
I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract. — Jeffrey Smart
When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal… — Marshall Ganz

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