Quotes About Abstractness

#1. Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Eric Temple Bell

#2. Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

Adyashanti

#3. The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Robert Motherwell

#4. Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not in his mind undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.

Herbert Marcuse

#5. People are always looking for magic, when the natural world holds true miracles

Avery Williams

#6. Salvation is not a blessing to be enjoyed upon the dying bed, and to be sung of in a future state above, but a matter to be obtained, received, promised, and enjoyed now.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. If you have answered God's call and made the decision to fulfill your calling, then the devil will try to destroy you

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

Joseph Pearce

#10. You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

Bill Nighy

#11. Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

Saint Augustine

#12. Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Jonathan Maberry

#13. And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

Julien Gracq

#14. Play the moment, play whatever plays for you in that moment, and then go to the next moment. It doesn't matter where you're going. Don't worry about that. Just take it moment, moment, moment, moment.

Philip Roth

#15. I've got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who've had it. The point about good surgery is you can't see it. The important thing is not to go crazy - and not to go to a bad surgeon.

Suki Waterhouse

#16. Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

Perry Brass

#17. It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

Mike Gordon

#18. Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

Elliott Abrams