Abstraction Quotations

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

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

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

I like residing in abstraction.