abstract quotes

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.