Quotes About Concrete

Nature has no beauty forbiddenManmade concrete slab: guilt-riddenWings or leaves whatever we may careThose limbs with the birds only trees will share

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

Concrete breathes sun's heat.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

Things aren't different. Things are things.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

The great works of art and literature have a lot to say on how to tackle the concrete challenges of living, like how to escape the chains of public opinion, how to cope with grief or how to build loving friendships. Instead of organizing classes around academic concepts — 19th-century French literature — more could be organized around the concrete challenges students will face in the first decade after graduation.

Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.