#personification

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#diary #discover #identity #mysterious #own

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#illuminates #important #obscures #personification #political

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #carries #country #first #furthest

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#carries #first #furthest #highest #intelligence

The priest is the personification of falsehood. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#personification #priest

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#better #dangerous #dispense #easily #evil

Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#personification #similes #simile

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God. ↗

— Martin Luther

#predestination #men

Know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#men