Personification Quotes

• 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

  Country, Hard Work, Knowledge

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil
  assumes the living shape of the Jew.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Evil, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Science, Technology

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• 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

  Religious, War, Evil

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.277, Psychology Press

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• Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

  Neil Gaiman

  Views, Ideas, Mourning

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• 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

  Writing, Identity, Would Be

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

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• Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

  P. C. Cast

  Dark, Breathing, Hades

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• The priest is the personification of falsehood.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Priests, Falsehood

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• Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfection, Way, Said

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• Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.

  P. C. Cast

  Fighting, Simple, Light

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• Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Women, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice should feel, hear and see; but truth alone should be the polar star by which she should shape her movements, and equity only should constrain her determinations.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Determination, Stars, Truth

  Judith Sargent Murray (1992). “The gleaner”, Syracuse Univ Pr

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

  Tom G. Palmer

  Political, Important, Groups

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.40, Cato Institute

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• Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.

  Raymond Chandler

  Funny, Men, People

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• Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

  John Lahr

  Dames, Comedy, Inspired

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• Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Men, Differences

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• No. He’s the personification of human fear. (Leta) Oh, goody. Just what I wanted to add to my dream. Should we invite him over for tea? (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Tea, Add

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• A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

  Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne

  Greatness, Men, May

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• The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

  Peter Milligan

  Real, Madness, Scream

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• It is not understood that before life an individual decides to
  live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the
  body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born.
  He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness
  or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will
  kill a person who does not want to die.

  Seth

  Gun, Epidemics, Self

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• Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Home, Destiny, Visits You

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.215, Penguin

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• The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Creative, Doe

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “The De-Definition of Art”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones.

  John Frederick Nims

  Mind, Sun, Stories

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• If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Government, Ifs

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• God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

  Michael Dowd

  Reality, Missing, Sacred

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