Uniformity Quotes - Page 4

• There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

  George Santayana

  Men, Stupidity, Joy

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.59, 谷月社

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• God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

  Roger Williams

  States

  Roger Williams (1867). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution”, p.3

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• The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Past, Supposing That, Giving

  William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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• Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Law, Excellence, Want

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train" and "American Bandstand", got our fashion and dance tips, and then we emulated it and bought those records that we heard. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds, and there's no uniformity. That bothers me.

  DJ Quik

  Fashion, School, People

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Real, Men

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• Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Character, Men, Uniforms

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• Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Differences, Worry, Would Be

  Source: chomsky.info

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• In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.

  Wendy Starland

  Opportunity, Artist, Play

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Body, Should, Stimulation

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• A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Voice, Progress

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Risk, Majority

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• Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Teacher, Children, Real

  "Youth: it's education, regimen and hygiene". Book by G. Stanley Hall, 1906.

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• Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

  Christopher Wren

  Variety

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• True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Real, Flower

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• In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Buddhist, Writing, Giving

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• Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Educational, Mean, Views

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• Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychics, Psychology, Process

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• Most of today's film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Hair, Eyelashes, Age

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• I think the fashion industry, as a result of globalization, has undergone a uniformity. I'm not saying that's good or that's bad but that is my observation.

  Patricia Field

  Fashion, Thinking, Globalization

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.

  Joseph Brodsky

  School, Russia, Years

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, Progress, Differentiation

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• I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Thinking, Important, Television

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Diversity, Unity, Islam

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