Particularity Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout. — Jules Olitski
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. — C.S. Lewis
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves… — Clifford Geertz
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. — Dee Hock
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… — Octavio Paz
'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother… — John of Kronstadt
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup… — Frederic Raphael
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't… — Hari Kunzru
Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits… — Wislawa Szymborska
For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's… — Angela Carter
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will… — Frederick Buechner
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself… — Anne Carson
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the… — Lionel Trilling
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in… — Jacques Lacan
The particularity of each New Testament author was in no way smothered by the unique process of inspiration. On the contrary, the Holy Spirit first… — John Stott

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