We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
--
"The Education of an Englishman" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 138 (1926), p. 192Alfred North Whitehead
» Alfred North Whitehead - all quotes »
Generalities would have been soon forgotten. But the story that had its roots in everyday human existence and need, lives and will live forever. It condensed the philosophy of Christianity into half a dozen unforgettable paragraphs. The parable of the Good Samaritan is the greatest advertisement of all times.
Bruce Fairchild Barton
Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Rufus Choate
Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.
Emil Cioran
Of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently — though as little of one as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
Aldous Huxley
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Whitehead, Alfred North
Whitehorn, Katharine
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z