Abstractions Quotes

74 Abstractions quotes by 64 unique authors

People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and… — Wendell Berry
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or… — Robert Genn
Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill… — Aime Cesaire
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be… — David Lynch
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty,… — Camille Paglia
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. — Robert M. Pirsig
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. — Richard Russo
Soon the childâ€™s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of… — Peter Matthiessen
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am… — Aldous Huxley
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. — Michael Crichton
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning… — Peter Matthiessen
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A… — Brent Weeks
Talkâ€”half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and… — Charles Lamb
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the… — Sue Monk Kidd
It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and… — Derrick Jensen
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. — David Foster Wallace
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than… — Alan Watts

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