Abstract Quotes
741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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...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
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An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
— Marcel Duchamp
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
— Auguste Comte
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With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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
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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
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The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
— Howard Berman
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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
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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
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I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.
— Jeffrey Smart
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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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