Quotes by Abstract The abstract kills, the concrete saves. Sylvia Plath concrete abstract You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. Talib Kweli abstract important children You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. Terry Pratchett stuck-up abstract hands In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Theodor Adorno concrete abstract responsibility Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract. Theodore L. Cuyler abstract imagine sin None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno fulfilled utopia abstract I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different. Thom Yorke pants abstract different He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving. Thomas Carlyle abstract virtue littles Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think. Tony Hiss our-relationship abstract thinking Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Vladimir Lenin abstract class mean Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes. W. G. Sebald abstract humanity home Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. Walter Pater abstract beauty art The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. Wassily Kandinsky appeals abstract art The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. Wassily Kandinsky way-forward abstract spirit Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred. Wendell Berry cold-hearted abstract hatred Even abstract shapes must have a likeness Willem de Kooning abstract shapes Even an abstract form has to have a likeness. Willem de Kooning abstraction abstract form The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. William Irwin Thompson chaos abstract science Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. William Hazlitt abstract pride circumstances I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator. Yves Saint Laurent dictator abstract fashion «123456789»