Abstract Quote by D. H. Lawrence

“Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily.”

— Alain de Benoist

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

— Rob Bell

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its…

— Louis Althusser

“Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book. It is…

— Subhajit Ganguly

The material world may be nothing but illusion...

— Anodea Judith

Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He sought fixed…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How”

— Lesslie Newbigin

Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight…

— Rodney Brooks

I think sometimes since we have so much technology today it's easy to overproduce things and perfect things in a way that's not really…

— Amber Rubarth

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

— Jasper Fforde