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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. -- Emile M. Cioran
The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal. -- Swami Vivekananda
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. -- George Jean Nathan
The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man. -- Swami Vivekananda
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really. -- Bo Derek
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred. -- Savitri Devi
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. -- Simone Weil
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. -- William Hull
War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal. -- Dennis Kucinich
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. -- Herbert Simon
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. -- Georg Simmel
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do. -- Zadie Smith
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. -- Georg Simmel
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. -- Jaron Lanier
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people. -- BD Wong
Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this. -- Roy Lichtenstein
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. -- Stephen Hawking
By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all. -- Stephen Hunter
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. -- Alfred Jarry
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects. -- Laura Esquivel
For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. -- Gretchen Rubin
When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law. -- John Mica
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. -- Andrew Weil
Actors should be timeless and impersonal. -- Anne Parillaud
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition. -- William Deresiewicz
...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter. -- Jack Kerouac
Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one. -- Oscar Wilde
Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really." -- Bo Derek
Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science. -- Jon Stewart
I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love. -- Cass McCombs
My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally. -- Newt Gingrich
Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues. -- Kenneth Kaye
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! -- Robert Orben
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal. -- Alan Lightman
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. -- Savitri Devi
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle. -- Swami Vivekananda
In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all. -- Rebecca Goldstein
As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book." -- Daniel Clowes
[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe. -- Roger McDonald
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. -- Marie Stopes
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power -- John Berger
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. -- John Berger
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal. -- Namsoon Kang
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals. -- Francis Schaeffer
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters. -- Simone Weil
This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart. -- David Frost
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning. -- Zora Neale Hurston
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. -- Stephen Hawking
Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish. -- Mooji
Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law. -- Bryan Stevenson
In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments. -- Penny Lernoux
Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown. -- Emily Dickinson
This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith. -- Francis Schaeffer
[A] great embarrassing factâ?¦ haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. -- David Graeber
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality. -- Thomas Cahill
Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom. -- Frederick Lenz
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact -- Rhonda Byrne
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity. -- Eric Hobsbawm
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world. -- Stephen Batchelor
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation? -- Barry Lopez
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship. -- Peter Kreeft
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce. -- Philip Johnson
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are. -- Enza Vita
A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. -- R. Alan Woods
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin. -- Ruth Ozeki
In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation. -- Albert Einstein
But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms. -- Anthony Standen
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave. -- Leo Tolstoy
Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities. -- Nabokov Vladimir
The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important. -- Gloria Steinem
Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology. -- Grace Gealey
It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see. -- Kenneth Eade
And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She." -- H. Rider Haggard
Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers. -- H. P. Lovecraft
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events. -- Emma Goldman
... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family. -- Lois Wyse
I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving. -- Jeanette Winterson
I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder. -- Burk Uzzle
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not. -- Swami Vivekananda

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