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)
“Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.”
—Zeno Vendler (b. 1921)
“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)