Concrete Quote by Joseph C Zinker

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete…

— Roger Scruton

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

— Pablo Picasso

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

— Alan Watts

“First I smell that smell and am overcome with a sensation of elation. Like a tight faucet turned open, everything floods from me. I…

— Sherry Fields

“But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Was I hiding from reality, on the outside looking in? Or, was I living my reality, on the outside looking out?”

— Heather Durham

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist…It is a…

— Thomas Merton

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

— Mary Edwards Walker

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But…

— Igor Stravinsky

In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard,…

— Elaine Equi