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 Copy Share Image
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely…Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I’d like them to appreciate the power of the individual—and I don’t mean me; I mean the power each person has to… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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