Impersonality Quotes

• I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.

  Jon Winokur

  People, Pay, Trouble

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• [University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.

  Muriel Beadle

  Heart, University Students, Self

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• Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.

  David Mermin

  Reading, Science, Past

  "Boojums All the Way Through". Book by N. David Mermin, 1990.

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• In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Air, Self, Perfect

  George H. Scithers, P. D Cacek, H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction”, p.143, Wildside Press LLC

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• The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

  John Rawls

  Mistake, Doctrine, Faults

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.190, Harvard University Press

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• I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

  Bill Bradley

  New York, Cities, Assumption

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

  Lynne Truss

  Home, People, Gone

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• In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Facts

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '

  Claude Bernard

  Art, Science, Personality

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Glowing, Hot And Cold

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