“No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.” ThinkingMenWorldTryingMatterShowsYoungExampleModelsPatternsConservativeLikesYoung ManAbstractAlways TryingDeviation Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [...] they also store the mind with independent geometrical and physical knowledge. Besides, it should be considered, that the only effectual method of impressing abstract formulae and rules upon the memory, and, indeed, of making them fully and clearly apprehended by the understanding, is by examples of their practical application.” ShouldMindArtUnderstandingMemoriesPracticeEffectsExampleIndependentMethodStoresPracticalsAbstractApplicationImpressConfinedIllustration Author:Dionysius Lardner
“Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body.” SaidSometimesBodyRealityLanguageSpaceEmotionCasesExampleBlowAbstractPoeticPreciseMisunderstoodPrimalEmilySpace BetweenDeep Emotions Author:Lidia Yuknavitch