Best 81 quotes in «abstraction quotes» category

You see, the notion of "sin" is for me an abstraction. There's no such thing as "sin". There's only such a thing as "tactlessness".

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book. It is these optimized solutions that make up and drive the non-abstract parts of the world, while the non-optimized solutions remain ‘hidden’ from the material world, inside the abstract world. Starting from a basis of no postulation, we build our theory. As we go on piling up possibilities, we come to a similar basis for understanding the four non-contact forces of nature known till date. The difference in ranges of these forces is explained from this basis in this book. Zero postulation or abstraction as the basis of theory synthesis allows us to explore even imaginary and chaotic non-favoured solutions as possibilities. With no postulation as the fundamental basis, we are thus able to pile up postulated results or favoured results, but not the other way round. We keep describing such implications of abstraction in this book. We deal with the abstraction of observable parameters involved in a given system

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Abstraction is the sickness of language.

...all this abstraction is also potentially distancing. We don't see the labor that went into building our railroads or the civilizations that were wiped out in order to clear the land. We don't see the millennia of dinosaurs or plankton that went into our oil, the Chinese repetitive stress injuries that went into our iPhones, or any of the other time-intensive processes we can spend in an instant today. We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski put it, we see further because we "stand on the shoulders" of the previous generation.

All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances are infinitely more bearable than the disturbing reality of mundane work-to-live-then-die-bored life.

A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

Forgotten Stars. Time in the Flame. Missing Shard. The Only Rain. Door of the Memory. Waves in the Silk. Silent Birch. Thoughts of Lunatics. Secret of the Flowers. Soaring of the Souls. Heart in the Night. And a Kiss Unfolds. Forgotten Voyager. Voyage in the Words. Nothing of the World. Someone of the Hemisphere. Trembling Stones. Sucking Tears. The Next Gift. The World in the Kisses. Missing Angels. The Woman of the Girl. Guardian of the Rings. Thorn in the Pearl. Whispering Sword. Touching exclaim. Soul in the Truth. Heat in the Flame. Thy name, my name, Thy name! Came. Became. To Remain.

Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

abstraction, n. Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

Form itself, even if completely abstract ... has its own inner sound.

[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral examples and personal exemplars. With his second argument in defence of examples, we are no longer talking about a strategy of moral education that is to be applied only to children and that can be dispensed with once they reach adulthood. Adult human beings do have stronger powers of reflection and abstraction than do children. But even adults remain saddled with ‘a discursive image-dependent understanding’, and thus they will always need examples in order to make the law visible to themselves.

From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however never been easy to find a solution to explain a given system while being a part of that system. The best bet is to find out the most fundamental components within the system and building a theory round these. In other words, a theory that is able to describe the world in totality has to keep the number of basic postulates it depends upon to zero or near zero.