Top 217 Impersonal Quotes & Sayings

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

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.

What better example than the World Cup is there of the fact that individual people are irrelevant while impersonal structures are invariant?

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

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.

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.

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.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.

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.

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.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

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.

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.

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

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.

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

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.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.

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.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

You have this idea that Hollywood is all about making money and is very impersonal. But 'Love, Simon' is such a passion project for director Greg Berlanti.

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

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.

So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.

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.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant." I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up." We've abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.

People say I'm cold, that I'm impersonal on the court. Well, let me tell you, it's blood and guts out there.

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.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

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?

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.