Quotes with abstraction

  • To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

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  • Abraham H. Maslow Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Havelock Ellis 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
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Hepworth It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
    Interview with The Studio
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Doris Lessing It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Brendan Myers Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bernard Beckett Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • David Foster Wallace To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
    Consider the Lobster (2005) 157
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Aldous Huxley When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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