1.
Walt Whitman -
“Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same – to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.”
2.
Robert Penn Warren -
“What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.”
3.
Jules Henri Poincaré -
“Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.”
4.
Robert King Merton -
“The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.”
5.
Judith Handelsman -
“The interconnectedness of all life does not have to be an abstract concept. We can live it. It doesn't matter whether we garden indoors or outdoors; we can honor our world. It is all a prayer.”
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Loyd J. Ericson -
“The term ideal, herein is not used in the sense of an abstract, unattainable perfection; but rather it means a worthy goal that has promise of attainment through appropriate efforts. The gap between where you are and where you desire to be creates a mental and emotional conflict, 'a holy discontent' — often called stress in today's world. Normally the first response to stress is to mentally and emotionally run over the outward indications of the conflict — anger, fear, disappointment, resentment, embarrassment, or other such negative feelings. In doing this one's mind is trying to fill the gap between his expectation of what he desires and what actually exists.”
7.
George Eliot -
“Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.”
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Spencer J. Condie -
“It is, of course, always easier to speak of Christ-like attributes in the abstract than to practice them in the heat of battle.”
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Eric Temple Bell -
“Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.”
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Jean Jacques Rousseau -
“Abstract truth is the eye of reason.”
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Joseph Joubert -
“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The great part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum.”
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