There seem to be two great aims in the philosophy of Plato,--first, to realize abstractions; secondly, to connect them. 柏拉图.理想国.
What they really are you and I know inwardly by using abstractions and living our lives. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
As I have had to abstract from life in order to communicate, so you are compelled to animate my abstractions, in order to understand. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Scarcely a substance herself, she grapples to conflict with abstractions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
But once I attempt to give that inwardness expression, I must use the only weapons I have--abstractions, theories, phrases. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Abstractions are not cloaks, nor wax figures, nor walls, nor vessels, and life doesn't flow like water. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The man of science in developing his abstractions is like a manufacturer of tools who does not know who will use them nor when. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
I am not a poet; I cannot live with abstractions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.