Quotes About Abstract

The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.

So it's reasonable to ask, "Is there actually any reason to use abstract classes?" The short answer is "No." Abstract classes in an API are suspicious and often indicate an unwillingness to invest more time in the proper API design. The longer answer is, "Well, there might be reasons to use abstract classes in APIs after all.

Gerhard Richter,

Maybe dealing rationally with the physical world is the more primitive part of us, while the capacity to interact abstractly with an unseen realm is the highest point of our human development.

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician, rather than the professor of metaphysics.

Qual é a utilidade de discutir o direito abstrato de um homem a alimentos ou medicamentos? A questão é sobre o método de adquiri-los e administrá-los. Nessa deliberação, eu sempre aconselho a pedir a ajuda do agricultor e do médico em vez do professor de metafísica.

While the idea of worshipping numbers may now seem bizarre, it perhaps reflects the scale of wonderment at the discovery of the first fragments of abstract mathematical knowledge. The excitement of learning that there is order in nature, when previously you were not aware that there was any at all, must have felt like a religious awakening.

I paint with shapes.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process the world. Without doing that, I feel kind of lost. The characters that I play often come out in the songs and the challenges that they face, albeit in an abstract way.

If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.

But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine. As John Donne has written, it is not so pure and abstract as one might once have thought and wished, but it does endure, and it does grow

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

According to Müller, during this time language still was not capable of expressing anything that required conceptual thought. It contained no abstract nouns, such as beauty, or any adjectives, such as beautiful, because such words generalized concepts from direct observations. Thus, he claimed that the earliest languages consisted entirely of nouns that referred to substantial objects and verbs describing actions.17

A real line has only one dimension, and that means it is impossible to draw it on a piece of real paper.

I want it said loudly and clearly that we can define racism in many ways, but it is, in my opinion, intellectually disingenuous to define it in a way that trivializes the role that racial hatred plays. Certainly, not all racism is hate-driven, but to ignore the connection between racial hate and racism is to reduce the concept of racism to a useless theoretical abstraction.

Certainly metaphor is in some sense the opposite of concrete thing.

Freedom, in the abstract, is irresponsibility for your choices. Freedom, in reality, is total responsibility for your choices. Treat freedom with the responsibility and realism it deserves.