A Quote by Oscar Wilde
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
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Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
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This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'
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