We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

“We think in generalities, but we live in details.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking…

— Alfred North Whitehead

We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies…

— Rudolf Arnheim

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those…

— Gregory Bateson

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would…

— David Hume

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

— C. S. Lewis

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

— Henry Fielding

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made…

— William Whewell

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called,…

— Samuel Johnson

Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was…

— William Wilberforce

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations…

— Edmund Burke

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment…

— David Stove

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

— Benjamin Cardozo