Concrete and Abstract
The object with instrinsic value, the end, may be both a concrete object or an abstract object.
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Famous quotes containing the words concrete and, concrete and/or abstract:
“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.... This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,
Declines upon her lost and twilight age;
Above in the dozing leaves the grinning cat
Quivers forever with his abstract rage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)