Quotes About Abstract

We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good". The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a nation we are incapable of more.

We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good".

Jackson Pollock

My painting does not come from the easel.

It's the role of narrative to... bridge the gap between philosophy as abstract theory, ideas in the ether, and life as lived on the ground.

A first order of conclusions will likely appear even more abstract and difficult! It is that Christians must not judge, act, or live according to principles, but according to the reality of the eschaton, lived out here and now. This is exactly the opposite of a moralism.

The first private clocks appeared in the sixteenth century. Thenceforward, time was an abstract measure separated from the traditional rhythms of life and nature.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Forgive me if I wander a little this evening, for I have been all day employ'd in a very abstract Poem and I am in deep love with you—two things which must excuse me.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

his celebrated theory of 'Forms'—eternal, nonphysical, quintessentially unitary entities, knowledge of which is attainable by abstract and theoretical thought, standing immutably in the nature of things as standards on which the physical world and the world of moral relationships among human beings are themselves grounded.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Curves are so emotional.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

The spiritual power sought by the Ohlones was not the pure, abstract kind of power such as modern religions offer. . . . In addition to its good qualities, it had erratic and often malevolent aspects as well.

The future, as always, felt too abstract to worry about, too nebulous, too otherworldly. What mattered was the here and now.

In order to make simple the great truths of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of the universe were personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While

A fin de simplificar las grandes verdades de la naturaleza y los principios abstractos de la ley natural, las fuerzas vitales del universo se personificaron y se transformaron en los dioses de las mitologías antiguas.

Universals cannot become particulars and particulars cannot become universals, but universals exist according to degrees and particulars exist according to conditions.

de dirección, como un pez en un agua transparente. La belleza no es una especie de superlativo de lo que imaginamos, como un tipo abstracto que tenemos ante los ojos, sino al contrario, un tipo nuevo, imposible de imaginar, y que la realidad nos presenta.

If science were only some abstract thing, without connection to our lives, it would be both useless and boring. But there have been times when I wished that I might snip a few of the threads tying it to other matters, so they would stop tripping me as I went.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.