| "There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." »Helen Keller |
| "I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich |
| "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." »Pablo Picasso |
| "abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp |
| "The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger |
| "Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor |
| "An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea." »Leland Stowe |
| "On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light." »Freya Stark |
| "Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky |
| "I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky |
| "Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money." »Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness." »Archibald MacLeish |
| "All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences." »Albert Einstein |
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