Starting point Quote by Michael F.D. Young

Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.

— Emile Coue

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing…

— Max Bill

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

— John Bargh

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

— Morris Kline

“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the…

— Ayn Rand

“In any case, it is a mistake to equate concreteness with things. An individual object is the unique phenomenon it is because it is…

— Terry Eagleton

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

— Theodor Adorno

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

— Teresa de Lauretis

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

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in…

— David Hilbert

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

— Anonymous