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Abstraction Quotes (page 12)

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates
They make life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by looking for deep thoughts and ideas everywhere and putting them into everything. just have the courage to give yourself up to first impressions..don’t think all the time that everything must be pointless if it lacks an abstract thought or idea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate and marvelously reasonable thoughts. What should we be without the help of that which does not exist? Very little. And our unoccupied minds would languish if fables, mistaken notions, abstractions, beliefs, and monsters, hypotheses, and the so-called problems of metaphysics did not people with beings and objectless images our natural depths and darkness. Myths are... Paul Valery
Charles Olson quote: "thisis the abstract, thisis the cold doing, thisis the almost..."
thisis the abstract, thisis the cold doing, thisis the almost impossible Charles Olson
... in St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near; Big questions bruised my mind but still I let. Small answers be a bullwark to my fear. The huge abstractions I kept from the light; Small things I handled and caressed and loved. I let the stars assume the whole of night. But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacity. Shouted to be acknowledged and believed. Even when all small answers build up to. Protection of my spirit, still I hear. Big answers striving for... Edith Sitwell
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are..."
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Friedrich Nietzsche
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again. Robinson Jeffers
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They..."
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. Stephenie Meyer
More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all--in order to become the public: that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party (an onlooker). Soren Kierkegaard
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression Gilles Deleuze
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Michael Crichton quote: "Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. Michael Crichton
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt. Ayn Rand

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