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“Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.”

World Way Real Matter Whole Reality Economic Models Relation Edges Core Abstract Enterprise Real World Rotten Footnotes Economic Models

Author:Noam Chomsky

“How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.”

Want Firsts Ideas Ends Whole Feelings Form Desire Starting Symbols Abstract Concrete Simplify Starting Point Nameless

Author:Emily Carr

“Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.”

Thinking Whole Term Perspective Painter Abstract

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source: 55 Men, Story of Constitution

“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”

Whole Activity Ultimate Unity Abstract Concrete Abstraction

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman