Abstraction Quotes

249 Abstraction quotes by 201 unique authors

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess,… — Jon Krakauer
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound… — John Locke
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. — Anne Carson
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own… — Elie Wiesel
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. — David Foster Wallace
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly… — Soren Kierkegaard
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,… — David Foster Wallace
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time… — Yukio Mishima
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me.… — Jonathan Nolan
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor… — Jonathan Safran Foer
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced… — David Foster Wallace
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of… — Marquis de Sade

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