Just Quote by Lauren Mayberry

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

— Martha Nussbaum

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

— William James

If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination…

— Max Beckmann

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

— Bruno Munari

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

— Marshall Ganz

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

— Gaston Bachelard

Instead of imposing something, let it make itself.

— Micah Lexier

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

— Alfred Korzybski

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

— Francis Galton