#abstract

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#science #life

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. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #love

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#cutting #first #global #goal #half

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

#complex #defined #distinction #element #meant

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. ↗

— David Hockney

#because #course #did #exciting #expressionist

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#color #expression #form #me #purest

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#abstract art #aesthetic #art #aware #become

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#beauty #future #past #promise #wisdom

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#also #becomes #lives #longer #mathematics

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#easier #hits #home #position #take