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Personification Quotes

Thus, to give an obvious instance, if I have once enjoyed the cool shade of a tree, and been lulled into a deep repose by the sound of a brook running at its feet, I am sure that wherever I can find a tree and a brook, I can enjoy the same pleasure again. Hence, when I imagine these objects, I can easily form a mystic personification of the friendly power that inhabits them, Dryad or Naiad, offering its cool fountain or its tempting shade. Hence the origin of the Grecian mythology. William Hazlitt
Aldous Huxley quote: "Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of..."
Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z.... Aldous Huxley
By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for the personification of everyone’s desire. Bell Hooks
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
I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection. Oscar Wilde
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
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. Joseph Campbell
Giuseppe Garibaldi quote: "The priest is the personification of falsehood."
The priest is the personification of falsehood. Giuseppe Garibaldi
I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult. Charlie Hunnam
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
Tom G. Palmer quote: "Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates,..."
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. Tom G. Palmer
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
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

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