Abstract Thought Quotes

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac

Politics, Nothing, Thought

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J. M. Coetzee

Thought, Wish, Sometimes

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
Glen Hansard

Love, Yourself, Thought

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur

Thought, Regrets, Ethics

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process.
Lazaro Hernandez

Thought, Difficult, Getting

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