#abstract

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#conception #concrete #responsibility #universal #vanishes

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#change #conflict #friction #means #movement

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#abstract #already #apparent #become #dreams

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#language #design

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#children #going #important #knowledge #learn

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#abstract #avoid #behind #beings #concrete

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #felt #i #involved #like

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. ↗

— Epicurus

#abstract #between #compact #justice #merely

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#certain #comics #fine #fine line #give

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#fleeting-thoughts #fragile #hearts #ideas #intangible