Abstract Quotations | Page 3

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred,

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art, the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in expression. Abstract truth may belong to science and

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.