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«One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world»
«On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light»
Author: Freya Stark
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abstract, abstract art, doorway, doorways, gently, noticed, on the whole, pale, regions, scarcely, truthful
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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abstract, callous, cynical, disillusion, disillusioned, idealism, inhuman, patients, They Live, uncertain
«No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals»
Author: Kenneth Clark
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
abstract, abstract art, arouse, Bad art, erotic, faintest, nude, nudes, spectator, The Spectator, vestige
«My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.»
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, deductions, deny, distort, evidence, intentionally, justify, predilection, predilections, senses, systems
«Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Mankind,
Politics
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracting, antagonism, antagonisms, divided, division, exploited, exploits, owners
«Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, concrete, devotes, enjoying, entirely
«Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, departed, entered, fixity, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, postulate, postulates, realm, static, Universals
«Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
abstract, cases, conceiving, conclusions, instinctive, perception, prompt, prompted, prompting