Concrete Quotes - Page 2

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.
Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20
The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.
Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.170, Anchor
...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”
Wendell Berry (2009). “Remembering”, p.96, Counterpoint Press
P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd
History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.
Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.78, Ludwig von Mises Institute
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt