We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Terence McKenna

Abstraction Across Barely Earth

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

Abstraction Beauty Believe Change

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

Abstraction Direct Direct Experience Experience

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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

Henri Matisse

Beauty Balance Dimensions Abstraction

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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness Abstraction Imagination

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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Mark Rothko

An abstractionist Not interested Relationship Human emotions

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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

Real life Collective life The race No existence

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Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Charles Lindbergh

Time Abstraction Exists Human

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Is terrible Destroy Person's picture The interest

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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Jean Piaget

Reflective Abstraction Individual Actions

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Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom Fact Reality Manner

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Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

Nobody Seeking truth

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" Quotes and Sayings About abstraction

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Terence McKenna

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

Henri Matisse

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Marquis de Sade

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Mark Rothko

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Charles Lindbergh

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Jean Piaget

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

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" Quotes and Sayings About abstraction

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Terence McKenna

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

Henri Matisse

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Marquis de Sade

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Mark Rothko

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Charles Lindbergh

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Jean Piaget

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

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