Impersonal Quotes

116 Impersonal quotes by 103 unique authors

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold… — Francis Schaeffer
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring,… — Peter Kreeft
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time… — Georg Simmel
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to… — Timothy Freke
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety… — Georg Simmel
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with… — Ishmael Reed
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism… — Kenny Smith
In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism,… — Benjamin Graham
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.… — John Berger
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when… — Roy Lichtenstein
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.… — Aneurin Bevan
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. — Savitri Devi
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby… — Yusef Komunyakaa
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa
The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its… — Sadegh Hedayat
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the… — Pope Francis
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! — Robert Orben
Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish. — Mooji
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is… — Thorstein Veblen
Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as… — Emily Dickinson
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. — Amos Bronson Alcott
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all… — Felix Frankfurter

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