Abstraction Quote by Novalis

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

— Robert Breault

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ,…

— Alexander Pope

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division…

— Fritjof Capra

We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next.…

— David Spangler

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

— Alexander Stepanov

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

— William Irwin Thompson

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

— Julianne Moore

“Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.”

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible…

— Hakim Bey

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

— Frederick Lenz

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz