He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.

— Rainbow Rowell

Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.

— M.F. Moonzajer

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.

— I.M. Pei

It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us.

— Jasleen Kaur Gumber

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

— Mark Rothko

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. Furthermore, I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

— Munia Khan

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

— Benjamin Wiker

Linear’s defeated form The intangible reality rise.'' ~ Wanderer

— Stella Coulson