First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting, obscuring ...
Perhaps if Man is finally to know the bodiless, timeless, transcendent Ground of the whole universe not as a mere philosophical abstraction but as the Lord who, despite this transcendence, is "not far from any one of us", as an utterly concrete Being...
Narrator: Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The walls were solid concrete. A foot of concrete is important when your next-door neighbor lets their hearing aid go and have to watch game-sho...
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete.
There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.
Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.
When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equipment, Dr Shigeto went right away to see the delegate and settle the matter tactfully. He is careful to steer clear of the superficial swirl of politic...
There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't ha...
What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole — rather than narrowly abstract, concerned only with the immediate interpersonal relations...
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.
