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741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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. — Unknown Author
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
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt… — Jorge Luis Borges
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those… — Louis Aragon
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the… — Sergei Eisenstein
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,… — Walter Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of… — Walter Pater
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of… — Pope Benedict XVI
The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts… — Carlos Castaneda
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want… — Max Stirner
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky

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