There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
Experience is of particulars only.
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have. . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?
For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.
One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.
The dead don't bother with particulars.
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down
Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.
Facts and particulars annoy me.
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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.
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.