Impersonal Quotes

116 Impersonal quotes by 103 unique authors

The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to… — Gerald Stanley Lee
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication… — Jaron Lanier
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. — Simone Weil
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit… — Daphne du Maurier
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most… — Upton Sinclair
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature;… — James Joyce
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin
...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter. — Jack Kerouac
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,… — Arundhati Roy
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a… — C.S. Lewis
I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it… — Jeanette Winterson
Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief,… — Roger Zelazny
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set… — Neil Gaiman
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in… — David Graeber
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary… — Aldous Huxley
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly,… — Ruth Ozeki
There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques;… — Isadora Duncan

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