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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. -- William Blake
Facts and particulars annoy me. -- Clarice Lispector
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. -- Plato
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. -- E. W. Howe
At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards. -- Zebulon Pike
It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars. -- Amy Ryan
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. -- William James
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. -- Henry Louis Gates
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. -- Joseph Addison
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging. -- Andrew Weil
I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth. -- Joanna Southcott
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit. -- Barton Gellman
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all. -- Aime Cesaire
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. -- Chauncey Wright
I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence. -- John Byng
I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time. -- Juliana Hatfield
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head. -- Chad Smith
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. -- Ayelet Waldman
Facts and particulars annoy me, -- Clarice Lispector
Experience is of particulars only. -- Abraham Kaplan
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The language of the poem is the language of particulars. -- Mary Oliver
Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars. -- James Russell Lowell
The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life. -- Carol Bly
Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. -- Delia Sherman
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. -- Heraclitus
If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars. -- William Blake
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. -- William Blake
For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind? -- William Butler Yeats
The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars. -- Susan Orlean
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! -- Anton Chekhov
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars. -- Heraclitus
I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters. -- Sergio Leone
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. -- Isaac Watts
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down -- Elaine Scarry
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting. -- Alden Ehrenreich
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. -- Marcel Proust
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) -- Anton Chekhov
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars. -- Patanjali
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. -- Arthur Wing Pinero
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. -- William Blake
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen. -- Nostradamus
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself. -- Barbara Myerhoff
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. -- William Carlos Williams
For particulars, as everyone 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
When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try. -- Nikki Giovanni
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim. -- Scott Simon
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars. -- Mari Evans
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything. -- Jim Harrison
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul. -- Evelyn Waugh
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars. -- Giambattista Vico
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars. -- Maria Montessori
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations. -- John Stuart Mill
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory. -- James Russell Lowell
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless. -- Nikolai Gogol
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use. -- Samuel Johnson

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