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  • We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

    Men   World   Earth  
    Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.13
  • We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics
  • Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.521, Delphi Classics
  • Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

    Mind   Purpose   Firsts  
    Howard Nemerov (1981). “Journal of the Fictive Life”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
  • Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

    Art   Reality   Order  
  • As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

    Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press
  • The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

    Party   Men   Past  
  • I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

    'Boswell's London Journal' (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1950) 20 January 1763
  • God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

  • A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

    "The Character of Physical Law". Richard P. Feynman's Messenger Lectures at Cornell University (November 1964), later quoted in his book "The Character of Physical Law" (Chapter 1 "The Law of Gravitation", p. 13), www.youtube.com. 1965.
  • For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

    George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”, p.44, Library of Alexandria
  • We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

    "Information Management: A Proposal". www.w3.org. March 1989.
  • The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.

    "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". Concurring opinion, 1971.
  • No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

    Levels   Matter   Facts  
    "Steps to an Ecology of Mind". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1972.
  • Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

  • Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

    Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
  • This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

  • It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

    Ignorance   Simple   Men  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.7, Booklassic
  • It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.

    Science   Class   Names  
    Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.425, Northwestern University Press
  • Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

    Art   Inspiration   Past  
    Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
  • I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

    Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.410, Delphi Classics
  • With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.

    Character   Easy   Enough  
    Henry Fielding (1782). “The Beauties of Fielding: Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.199
  • The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

    Fear   Men   Evil  
    Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

  • Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

    "McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co., 336 U.S. 187". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. February 14, 1949.
  • It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

    David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.6, Oxford University Press
  • The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

    Thomas Chalmers (1836). “Works”, p.314
  • War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

    Marguerite Duras (1986). “La douleur”, HarperCollins
  • Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

    Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.190, Courier Corporation
  • Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

    Letter to Maine Whig State Central Committee, 9 Aug. 1856
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