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Abstract Quotes by William James
- From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with…
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock…
- 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…
- Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and…
- Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
More Abstract Quotes
- None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
- My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent… — Freydoon Rassouli
- In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead
- History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson
- If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes
- There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of… — Brian Greene
- Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid,… — Martin Amis