"In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself."
Read quote
4 likes
Abstract quotes
Abstract
160 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Abstract
Browse quotes that often appear alongside abstract — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Abstract quotes (page 2 of 8)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own."
Read quote
4 likes
"Human intellect is incurably abstract."
Read quote
3 likes
"Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!"
Read quote
3 likes
"In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration."
Read quote
3 likes
"Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found."
Read quote
3 likes
"All men in the abstract are just and good."
Read quote
3 likes
"In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic."
Read quote
3 likes
"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed."
Read quote
3 likes
"Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense."
Read quote
3 likes
"As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed."
Read quote
3 likes
"We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on tape, even if it's got an abstract sound to it. We are kind of producers as well as a band, so we're a self-contained unit. We can produce our own record as well as write it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man."
Read quote
3 likes
"All representations of a thing are inherently abstract."
Read quote
3 likes
"But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway."
Read quote
3 likes