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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,… — 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… — Carl Sagan
- Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the… — George Boole
- The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Virginia Woolf
- For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions. — Paulo Coelho