Impersonal
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an impersonal verb.
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Impersonal Quotations
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran
For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Margaret J. Wheatley
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
Herbert Simon
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.
Georg Simmel
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.
Roy Lichtenstein
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
Georg Simmel
Impersonal Translations
impersonal in Norwegian is upersonlig, upersonlig
impersonal in Spanish is impersonal
impersonal in Swedish is opersonlig
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