73 Quotes About Abstraction

abstraction, n.Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

…people could not analyse their metaphors if they didn’t command an underlying medium of thought that is more abstract than the metaphors themselves.

It is possible, indeed important, to be able to separate these two notions—to create procedures without naming them, and to give names to procedures that have already been created.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

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

I like residing in abstraction.