Quote by John Stuart Mill

“The distinction, therefore, between general names, and individual or singular names, is fundamental; and may be considered as the first grand division of names.”

— John Stuart Mill

“The abstract and the concrete side of operations are opposites, but you can't have one without the other, if, that is, you want get…

— David Keirsey

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

— Eric Maisel

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in…

— Edith Stein

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is…

— Steven Pinker

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and…

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

— Morris Kline

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn

“This leads to the consideration of a third great division of names, into connotative and non-connotative, the latter sometimes, but improperly, called absolute.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”

— William Strunk Jr