Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.
Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.