“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.” IfsHeartKindHas BeensMadeRealSelfReasonEnoughPhilosophyFactsProblemInspirationDesireOpinionHonestColdDevelopmentPureBottomPhilosopherNoiseAbstractAssumptionTouchedVirtuousSelf DevelopmentTruthfulnessHunchesDialecticsUnconcernedNot Honest Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.” WorldFeelsImportantTodayNextPsychologyImpossiblePolicyDevelopmentCitizensOrdinaryComplexesMathPhysicsAstronomyAbstractDependentRelevanceClassical MusicLive For TodayPublic PolicyOrdinary CitizensActual Life Author:David Foster Wallace
“The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.” CharacterSeemsDifferencesLinesWhiteStageDevelopmentPaperDrawingAbstractSpiteSensibilitySheetsAbstractionAdoptedOutlinesEgyptianGraffitiWhite Paper Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art
“The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.” YearsFilmDevelopmentHollywoodAverageStudiosNineAbstractNine YearsHollywood Movies Author:Stephen Gaghan
“Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.” MightOrderSacrificeDevelopmentMachinesAbstractFormal Author:Le Corbusier