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Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Abstraction Commitments Common Common Good Does Done Good Itself Justice Mere Only Partial Practice Realized Reflection Something Translate Truth Truth Is Understanding

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Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

~Alexander Calder

Topics: Abstraction Always Arrangement Art Entirely Exciting Look Meaning Motion Must Next Next Step Painted Perfect Planes Sculpture Spheres Static Step Still Why Without Would You

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When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.

~Alfonso Cuaron

Topics: Abstraction Almost Beyond Create Doing Experience Film Hits Important Moment Moments Most Narrative Psyche Those Tool You Your

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I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Abstraction Attention Drift Endlessly Every Every Time Formulate Helping Her His Hold Human Intrigued Lives Love Narratives Off Pure Reading Someone Stories Story Time I Love I Can

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In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Abstraction Attention Because Brains Creatures Lot Mind Minds Operate Pay Precisely Principles Same Self Simple Those Who Without

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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

~Auguste Comte

Topics: Abstraction Collective Except Existence Individual Life Only Race Real Real Life

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Abstraction Attribute Everything Function Highest His Man Mind Necessity Reasoning Religious Skyscraper Smallest Wheel

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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

~Benjamin Whorf

Topics: Abstraction Adequate Concepts Describing Flow Lacks Language New Our Picture Reference Same Same Time Space Taking Task Terms Time Universe Up Which Without

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Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Abstraction Bit Little Little Bit Modelling More Predicting Really Science Technical Than Think Way Wonderful Wonderful Way I Think

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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Abstraction Centre Even Happen Home Need Place Relationships

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