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Abstractions Quotes

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy Picture Quote #1

The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one’s responses are isolated, one’sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity Picture Quote #1

Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can be more insidious than bronze idols Picture Quote #1

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle Picture Quote #1

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs Picture Quote #1

The concrete is a combination of abstractions - not an arbitrary or subjective combination but one that corresponds to the laws of the movement of a given phenomenon Picture Quote #1

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The utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact Picture Quote #1

The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content Picture Quote #1

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity Picture Quote #1

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can’t be said so well with words Picture Quote #1

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition Picture Quote #1

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect Picture Quote #1

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At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there’d be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you Picture Quote #1

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us Picture Quote #1

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers Picture Quote #1

I care about strangers when they’re abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they’re literally in front of me Picture Quote #1

Do you know what punishments I’ve endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men’s most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn’t tolerate my existence Picture Quote #1

It’s no wonder we don’t defend the land where we live. We don’t live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances Picture Quote #1

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For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth! Picture Quote #1

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena Picture Quote #1

Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts Picture Quote #1

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking Picture Quote #1

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They’re also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there’s an inner intelligence or logic Picture Quote #1

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another Picture Quote #1

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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions Picture Quote #1

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions Picture Quote #1

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn’t be where we are now Picture Quote #1

There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour Picture Quote #1

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Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. (Abstractions Quotes) The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one’s responses are isolated, one’sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity (Abstractions Quotes) Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can be more insidious than bronze idols (Abstractions Quotes) Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle (Abstractions Quotes) I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs (Abstractions Quotes) The concrete is a combination of abstractions - not an arbitrary or subjective combination but one that corresponds to the laws of the movement of a given phenomenon (Abstractions Quotes) The utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact (Abstractions Quotes) The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content (Abstractions Quotes) I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity (Abstractions Quotes) To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can’t be said so well with words (Abstractions Quotes) Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition (Abstractions Quotes) Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect (Abstractions Quotes) At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there’d be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you (Abstractions Quotes) We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us (Abstractions Quotes) Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers (Abstractions Quotes) I care about strangers when they’re abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they’re literally in front of me (Abstractions Quotes) Do you know what punishments I’ve endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men’s most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn’t tolerate my existence (Abstractions Quotes) It’s no wonder we don’t defend the land where we live. We don’t live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances (Abstractions Quotes) For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth! (Abstractions Quotes) The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena (Abstractions Quotes) Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts (Abstractions Quotes) The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking (Abstractions Quotes) My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They’re also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there’s an inner intelligence or logic (Abstractions Quotes) Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another (Abstractions Quotes) Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions (Abstractions Quotes) Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions (Abstractions Quotes) If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn’t be where we are now (Abstractions Quotes) There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour (Abstractions Quotes)

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