Abstract

Famous quotes containing the word abstract:

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“What a cheerful rhyme! Clean not mean!
Been not seen! Not tired—expired!
We must now decide about place.
We decide that place is the big weeping face
And the other abstract lace of the race.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)