Abstractions Quotes

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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart… — Carl Sagan
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a… — George Boole
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. — Edmund Burke
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially… — Walt Whitman
We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives. — Marianne Williamson
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity… — Virginia Woolf
For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions. — Paulo Coelho
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
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three… — Lee Krasner
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that… — Robert Anton Wilson
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy;… — Edouard Seguin
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. — William James
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is… — Paul Rusesabagina
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary… — Aldous Huxley

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