Abstract Philosophy Quotes

#1. Since when did you take to abstract philosophy? You're only a businessman, you're not qualified to deal with questions of principle, you ought to leave it to the experts

Ayn Rand

#2. Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

James Arthur

#3. The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.

Richard Holbrooke

#4. There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, and an elemental life within the swarm of humanity, in which a man inevitably follows laws laid down for him.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart.

Debasish Mridha

#6. 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.

Freya Stark

#7. It's the role of narrative to... bridge the gap between philosophy as abstract theory, ideas in the ether, and life as lived on the ground.

Jacob M. Held

#8. Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds.

Debasish Mridha

#9. An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

Nancy Pearcey

#10. Psychology is a condensed version of mindset; whereas philosophy is an abstract of the human society.

Pearl Zhu

#11. A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

Munia Khan

#13. For example, it is only by work we extract gold from the soil. It takes work to discover the oil that is already deposited in the ground. It is work that turns a hill of coal into karats of diamond.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.

Jeev Milkha Singh

#15. A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.

Norbert Wiener

#16. Christ didn't die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!

Louie Giglio

#17. Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy.

Tim Crane

#19. Capitalism will always come after us.

Clementine Ford

#20. Jerking off the universe is perhaps what all philosophy, all abstract thought is about: an intense, and not very sociable pleasure, which has to be repeated again and again.

Susan Sontag

#21. I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Enya

#22. I am at war ... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

Pam Gems

#23. Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Gilles Deleuze

#24. Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#25. I think there's an innocence to me.

Krista Allen

#26. This life we all receive is full of invisible boundaries and abstract values.

K. Conley

#27. Life can only be experienced in myriad of intricate forms, but can be understood only in abstract.
Here/Now/Present is the doorway to abstract - the divine nothingness

Rashmit Kalra

#28. Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.

Elliott Abrams

#29. Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.

Kenny Smith

#30. I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

A.J. Ayer

#31. If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

Dan Simmons

#32. Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.

Richard Leider

#33. Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#34. The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself.

C. G. Jung

#35. You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

Percy Foreman