Abstractions Quotes

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives. - Marianne Williamson

We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us. - Robert Hayden

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. - David Lynch

These big pieces and headdresses, I see them more as abstractions than as subjects. - Hugh Williams

The people in India do not think of the gods as abstractions. They think of them as real beings who move amongst them and work upon their lives every day. If you have something that you need, if somebody is sick, if a child needs to get into college or whatever it may be, you would go and find the relevant deity to make the offering to and you would believe that that would increase your chances of getting what you needed in life. - Salman Rushdie

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. - Robert M. Pirsig

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. - Thomas Jefferson

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. - George Boole

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well. - Rem Koolhaas