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Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity and an actuality that lacked a balance betwixt havoc and sangfroid. The intellectual capabilities of the excellent idiosyncratic talents of a man with an agog outlook for de minimis fringe entities had left the portal ajar for the enlightened few, to get a glimpse of the obsecure reality that most had decided to claim socratic ignorance to evade inquiries.

~ O.z. Napaeae

O.z. Napaeae Abstraction Erratic Intellectualism Nihilism Philosophy Serenity Socratic Reasoning

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Abstraction Language Metaphor Myths Representation Truth

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Abstraction Conflict Confusion Debate Definition Disagreement Fortunate Fortunately Ideas Love Obscurity Opinions Truth Uncertainty Unfortunate Unfortunately World

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Abstract Abstraction Fear Fear Of Truth God Truth

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

~ Paul Karl Feyerabend

Paul Karl Feyerabend Abstraction Goodness Religion

The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of particulars, that he can stretch his puny faculties so as to embrace a minute portion of the illimitable vastness of the universe. But if the propensity is natural and even inevitable, it is nevertheless fraught with peril, since it is apt to narrow and falsify our conception of any subject under investigation. To correct it partially - for to correct it wholly would require an infinite intelligence - we must endeavour to broaden our views by taking account of a wide range of facts and possibilities; and when we have done so to the utmost of our power, we must still remember that from the very nature of things our ideas fall immeasurably short of the reality.

~ James George Frazer

James George Frazer Abstraction Generalizations Knowledge Science

... Lyotard suggests that while discourse operates as a system of representation which defines meanings according to their relation to other concepts in that system, figure is the realm of the singular, of that which refuses to, or simply cannot, be captured and systematized by the concept.

~ Nicholas Gane

Nicholas Gane Abstraction Art Belief Concept Knowledge Science

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

~ Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky Abstraction Art Paintings Science

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Abstraction Science

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

~ William James

William James Abstraction Intellect Spirituality

I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more abstract, and in her last exhibition, her paintings were splashes of rebellious color, like the two in my living room, dark patches with little droplets of blue. I asked about her progress from modern realism to abstraction. Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

~ Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi Abstraction Art Dreams Reality

Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.

~ Lepota L. Cosmo

Lepota L. Cosmo Abstraction Art Colorism Deabstraction Movement

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

~ Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian Abstraction Art Essence Truth

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Abstraction Intelligence

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which has, like everything human, its negative side, in the desolating sense of rootlessness, vacuity, and the lack of concrete feeling that assails modern man in his moments of real anxiety.

~ William Barrett

William Barrett Abstraction Alienation Anxiety Concreteness Control Feeling Homelessness Meaning Meaninglessness Modernity Power Progress

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Abstraction Courage Glory Honor

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his, she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

~ D.h. Lawrence

D.h. Lawrence Abstraction Heartbreak Passion Understanding

All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances are infinitely more bearable than the disturbing reality of mundane work-to-live-then-die-bored life.

~ Moonshine Noire

Moonshine Noire Abstraction Boredom Death Depression Futility Life Nihilism Reality Suffering

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.

~ Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber Abstraction Applied Science Creativity Ideas King Knowledge Nobel Laureate Research Science Scientific Abstraction

I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges Abstraction Contemplation Imagination Labyrinth

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Abstraction Confusion Everything Evil Root Of All Sorrow Root Of Sin Sin

Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.

~ Peter Frase

Peter Frase Abstraction Experience Imperceptible Science Fiction Social Science

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Abstraction Language

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

~ Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes Abstraction Language

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.

~ Melvin Schwartz

Melvin Schwartz Abstraction Discovery Insights Language Math Mathematics Models Nature Nobel Laureate Science Scientist

If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or erroneous. But if they are held without an awareness of abstracting-if our mental maps are believed to be the territory-they are prejudices. As teachers or parents, we cannot help passing on to the young a certain amount of misinformation and error, however hard we may try not to. But if we teach them to be habitually conscious of the process of abstraction, we give them the means by which to free themselves from whatever erroneous notions we may have inadvertently taught them.

~ S.i. Hayakawa

S.i. Hayakawa Abstraction Awareness Teaching

In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to which we have no direct access, and metaphorical thought of which we are largely unaware. The fact that abstract thought is mostly metaphorical means that answers to philosophical questions have always been, and always will be, mostly metaphorical. In itself, that is neither good nor bad. It is simply a fact about the capacities of the human mind. But it has major consequences for every aspect of philosophy. Metaphorical thought is the principal tool that makes philosophical insight possible and that constrains the forms that philosophy can take.

~ George Lakoff

George Lakoff Abstraction Metaphor Philosophy Reason

Monotheism and an absolute God define one another.The absolute is a mental construct, an abstract mental model.The absolute, whether it is a purest abstract essence or an extreme abstract measure, only exists in our minds as an abstraction.Furthermore, the absolute will only lead to the abandon of all measure and blind us to the relative interdependence of all things.The measure of knowledge of life is the knowledge of the measure of this relative interdependence.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

Haroutioun Bochnakian Absolute Abstraction Confusion God Interdependence Monotheism Philosophy Religion Thought

Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book. It is these optimized solutions that make up and drive the non-abstract parts of the world, while the non-optimized solutions remain ‘hidden’ from the material world, inside the abstract world.Starting from a basis of no postulation, we build our theory. As we go on piling up possibilities, we come to a similar basis for understanding the four non-contact forces of nature known till date. The difference in ranges of these forces is explained from this basis in this book. Zero postulation or abstraction as the basis of theory synthesis allows us to explore even imaginary and chaotic non-favoured solutions as possibilities. With no postulation as the fundamental basis, we are thus able to pile up postulated results or favoured results, but not the other way round. We keep describing such implications of abstraction in this book. We deal with the abstraction of observable parameters involved in a given system

~ Subhajit Ganguly

Subhajit Ganguly Abstraction Boson Dark Energy Favored Force Laws Matter Physical Postulation Scale Theory Transaction Zero

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

~ Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Abstraction Art Artist

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

~ Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle Abstraction Compromise Discipleship

Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money

~ Satyajit Das

Satyajit Das Abstraction Finance Modeling Modelling

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Abstraction Dance Music The Concrete

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Abstraction Beauty Child Child S Mind Grown Up Grown Ups Imperative Ursula Monkton

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

~ Luhraw

Luhraw Abstract Abstraction Art Quotes Artists Life Arts Canvas Luhraw Painters Painting Photography

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

~ Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré Abstraction Art Mathematics
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