“The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.” DoeFeelingsCertainSpeakBloodThousandPureRedRelationWineGlassesConcreteRootedHuntersCaps Author:Robert Motherwell
“Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.” TodayTechnologyMarkRelationChinaNuclearConcretePakistanCeremonyPouringMilestoneLandmarksNuclear Technology Author:Shaukat Aziz
“the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.” WorldWonderfulRelationConcreteOrnery Book:Invisible Man Source: Invisible Man
“The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.” WorldLittlesFactsRealityReligionUniverseAcceptanceBearsRelationDefinitionsCarefulMapsConcreteAdorationMajesticUnfathomable Author:Evelyn Underhill
“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.” WayNeedsMeanMomentsCharacterIndividualSocialQualityRelationSatisfactionRecognitionAbstractIsolatedConcreteCommerceAbstractionReciprocalUniversality Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right
“Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.” NeedsSelfIdentityTheoryCapitalismRelationPropertyConcreteMasculinityUnchangeableCaption Author:Lauren Berlant
“In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in the maze of materials ... being studied, and to correlate the material in a systematic and orderly manner. On the other hand, the tendency towards intuitive understanding fosters a more immediate grasp of the objects one studies, a live rapport with them, so to speak, which stresses the concrete meaning of their relations.” TwoHandsSpeakUnderstandingStudyObjectsMaterialsStressRelationMathematicsTendenciesLogicalConcreteInherentAbstractionIntuitiveSystematicOrderlyMazesRapport Author:David Hilbert
“If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.” IfsIdeasValuesDependsProveRelationBe GoodBeing TrueConcreteTheologicalPragmatism Book:Pragmatism Source: Pragmatism
“Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.” HeartMatterFeelingsLove IsEnemySweetRelationActiveAttachmentSentimentsInspirational LoveConcreteBeneficialReciprocalFriends And EnemiesTruth And Beauty Author:Carter Heyward