Best Abstraction Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”

“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. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.”

“Burak Cem Coşkun’s Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber is a strikingly unique addition to contemporary literature that successfully merges the precision of theoretical physics with the lyrical soul of Anatolian philosophy. As the fourth volume in his *Science and Poetry* series, the work functions less like a traditional poetry collection and more like a "meta-text" where the author, a physicist by training, uses concepts like de-Sitter space, neutrinos, and topological solution spaces to explore deeply human themes of memory, existence, and nature. The structure is intellectually ambitious, moving from the "Fine Tuning" of cosmic scales to "Transcendental" reflections that feel rooted in the Ionian tradition of natural philosophers like Thales and Anaximander. What makes the reading experience so natural is how the author anchors these abstract scientific metaphors in physical locations—from the "glacial austerity of Stockholm" to the "mist-veiled nights of Tartu"—and ends with a fascinating philosophical "postulate" regarding Randomly Organized Structural Entities (ROSE) that attempts to unify biophysics with astrophysics through a geometry-centered framework. It is an evocative read for anyone interested in the intersection of mythos and logos, successfully arguing that the language of the universe is not just mathematical, but inherently poetic.”