"Abstract" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... definition, his conclusions, as applied to actually existing objects, are either not true at all or only proximately so. Whether it be possible to bridge over the gulf between existing things and the abstract conception of them, as Spinoza attempts to do, we shall presently see. It is a royal road to certainty if it be a practicable one; but we cannot say that we ever met any one who could say honestly Spinoza's reasonings had convinced him; and power ...
— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude
... follies of youth, but there was no youth in your heart; your mind has too much depth; you have never been naive and artless, and you cannot begin to be so now. Your charm comes from mystery; it is abstract, not active. Your strength repulses men of strength who fear a struggle. Your power may please young souls, like that of Calyste, which like to be protected; though, even them it wearies in the long run. You are grand, and you are sublime; bear with the consequence ...
— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac
... she told us, and from what I was told by others personally concerned, and from a paper of information which Rasay was so good as to send me, at my desire, I have compiled the following abstract, which, as it contains some curious anecdotes, will, I imagine not be uninteresting to my readers, and even, perhaps, be of some ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... abstract standards, have thus become the basis of school activity. The old education developed its course of study by surveying the interests of adults, and picking from among them those, apparently the most simple, ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing
... much difference to the machines whether there is poetry in them or not. It is a mere abstract question to the machines. ...
— The Voice of the Machines - An Introduction to the Twentieth Century • Gerald Stanley Lee
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