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- The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell
- Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must… — Jules Olitski
- Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Wislawa Szymborska