Quotes by Abstract The abstract kills, the concrete saves. Sylvia Plath concreteabstract 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 abstractimportantchildren You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. Terry Pratchett stuck-upabstracthands In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Theodor Adorno concreteabstractresponsibility 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 abstractimaginesin None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno fulfilledutopiaabstract I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different. Thom Yorke pantsabstractdifferent 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 abstractvirtuelittles 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-relationshipabstractthinking Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Vladimir Lenin abstractclassmean Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes. W. G. Sebald abstracthumanityhome 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 abstractbeautyart The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. Wassily Kandinsky appealsabstractart The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. Wassily Kandinsky way-forwardabstractspirit 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-heartedabstracthatred Even abstract shapes must have a likeness Willem de Kooning abstractshapes Even an abstract form has to have a likeness. Willem de Kooning abstractionabstractform The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. William Irwin Thompson chaosabstractscience Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. William Hazlitt abstractpridecircumstances 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 dictatorabstractfashion«123456789»
