#abstract

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#assist #charity #elevation #his #justice

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ↗

— Ellen Key

#abstract #becomes #horrifying #more #world

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#active #artist #i #politically #say

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#after #anything #happens #i #murder

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#capable #concrete #devotes #enjoying #happiness

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences. ↗

— Peter Singer

#be different #best #circumstances #consequences #differences

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. ↗

— Frank Stella

#against #become #best #gestures #had

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. ↗

— George Stigler

#appeal #became #become #economists #even

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#i #ideas #lose #myself #sometimes

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration