Metaphysical Abstractions Quote by Walter Isaacson

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis,” he later said.”

— Walter Isaacson

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory.” What”

— Walter Isaacson

“My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for…

— Anthony Stevens

“His elucidation was so minute and clear, and his metaphysical reasonings so acute and captivating, that his opinion was universally accepted as an historical…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than…

— Paul Bowles

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.…

— Oscar Wilde

“He’d come to war to see abstractions become realities. Instead he’d seen the reverse. Everything was abstract now.”

— Denis Johnson