Famous quotes containing the words abstract, art, critics, war and/or era:
“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to one another. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor’s son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)