Quotes About Particular

The point is, the way to speak to the universal is through the particular. The broad message might appear to speak to everyone, but really it speaks to no one deeply. When you focus on the particular, even though it seems counterintuitive, by communicating just one thing to just one person, you say everything to everyone.

I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad person who writes me a letter. It is no longer necessary for them even to write me. I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this.

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

I am an acquired taste.

I'm the pickiest eater ever.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Design for individuals and the results may be wonderful for the particular people they were designed for, but a mismatch for others. Design for activities and the result will be usable by everyone.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. -George Bernard Shaw

The philosopher did not have a practical agenda. That was implicit in his concern for the general, not the particular. This made philosophical politics look attractively different from the self-seeking squabbling of party political debate. On the other hand, it made philosophical religion look, to some at least, reprehensibly theoretical and 'cold'.

book is always in motion – from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading

the Erinyes, our hissing spirits of vengeance, were not always particular.

To break men off particular sins, and not to break their hearts, is to deprive ourselves of advantages of dealing with them.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

the gentle astonishment in her eyes, to which she had added, without daring to address it to anyone in particular, but so that everyone might enjoy his share of it,

Certainly we are obliged to relive our particular suffering with the courage of a physician who tries over again upon himself an experiment with a dangerous serum.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

The sacredness of the male mind is allied to the struggle for power in that men, claiming objectivity, can also claim universal validity for their values. In this sense the word man, correctly in their view, can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for the general but only for the particular.

What is there at each moment is 'structural truth,' connected to perspective, to centering, to structurimg. Of course other ways of structuring are possinle, formalizations, from which it results that the current way of structuring is surpassed, that the current way of structuring looks to be a particular case.

There is a fitting together of different perspectival views; there is no fitting together of all of them in an absolute knowledge which is completely decentered and final...The passage from the particular to the universal is never finished.

They were all just countless cells that had joined together to make this group in particular—this group that Julie Jacobson, who had no currency whatsoever, suddenly decided she loved.

Strategy becomes the particular array of activities aligned to deliver a particular mix of value to a chosen array of customers.

Socialization, or the transformation of a human organism into a person who functions successfully within a particular social system, cannot be avoided.