Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."
Abstraction quotes
Abstraction
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher
"To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality."
Sufjan Stevens
Musician
"I like residing in abstraction."
Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
Wallace Stevens
Poet
"Poetry is an abstraction bloodied."
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"Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it."
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"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
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"Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion."
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"There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned."
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"Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction."
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