“ That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. ”
- George Sand- Copy
- 890
“ Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
- 1.1K
“ But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished. ”
- Peter S. Beagle- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ”
- Adam Duritz- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
- 905
“ The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. ”
- Ray Kurzweil- Copy
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“ Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
- 274
“ To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. ”
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel- Copy
- 479
“ Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.5K
“ That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. ”
- Sarah Caldwell- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
- 3.7K
“ That is my major preoccupation — memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
- 604
“ A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 458
“ It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ”
- Steven Spielberg- Copy
- 25
“ Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 971
“ Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. ”
- Nicolas Chamfort- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Too great a preoccupation with motives is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. ”
- Katharine Whitehorn- Copy
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