Abstractions

Examples

• There seem to be two great aims in the philosophy of Plato,--first, to realize abstractions; secondly, to connect them. Plato. The Republic.
• What they really are you and I know inwardly by using abstractions and living our lives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As I have had to abstract from life in order to communicate, so you are compelled to animate my abstractions, in order to understand. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Scarcely a substance herself, she grapples to conflict with abstractions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But once I attempt to give that inwardness expression, I must use the only weapons I have--abstractions, theories, phrases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Abstractions are not cloaks, nor wax figures, nor walls, nor vessels, and life doesn't flow like water. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The man of science in developing his abstractions is like a manufacturer of tools who does not know who will use them nor when. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I am not a poet; I cannot live with abstractions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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