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insignificance
«And the conception of a God so constituted that we are, as individuals, of direct concern to Him appears both presumptuous - considering our individual insignificance in the scheme as a whole - and unnecessary for that feeling of helpless reverence i»
Author: Hans Zinsser
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as a whole, conception, Considering, constituted, helpless, insignificance, presumptuous, reverence, scheme, unnecessary
«Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential...»
Author: William Thomas
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inconsequential, insignificance, moron, morons, pathetic, pompous
«Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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amazement, beheld, duly, Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures, insignificance, overwhelmed, presence of God, relates, scripture, struck, touched, uniformly
«I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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diseased, distinctions, expressed, founded, grandeur, insignificance, Mass, outward, sic, usefulness
«Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
customer, insignificance, methods, propaganda, voter
«The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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circumstance, does, first, great, insignificance, person, realize, the first, thing, under the circumstances
«If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Genius,
Learning
| Keywords:
commentator, insignificance, Shakespeare, The Force