#abstract thought

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process. ↗

— Lazaro Hernandez

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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