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The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
— Frederick Lenz
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
— Michael Crichton
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
— Johan Huizinga
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions.It's really cool.
— Lewis Black
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
— Brian Aldiss
We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
— Marianne Williamson
I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
— Chuck Klosterman
Go in fear of abstractions.
— Ezra Pound
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.
— Samael Aun Weor
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
— Edward Gibbon
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
— William James
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency.
— Craig Lancaster
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
— David Foster Wallace
Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.
— Grady Booch
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
— Stephen L. Carter
For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
— Paulo Coelho
Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we're eating animals.
— Michael Pollan
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
— Richard Russo
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
— Joel Spolsky
Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different.
— Bryan Stevenson
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
— Flannery O'Connor
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
— Robert M. Pirsig
What matters is that I have found a sort of peace in a primative God outside of theories and abstractions.
— Mildred Jordan
Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
— Sendhil Mullainathan
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
— David Lynch
