Abstraction Quotes
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of vi...
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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum ...
Show MoreRemember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view o...
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In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to wh...
Show MoreAbstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we ...
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth ...
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You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...
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Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...
Show MoreShe really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an impe...
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I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arri...
Show MoreI would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and ...
Show MoreIf our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to ...
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep o...
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Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental th...
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I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly ...
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