Which preposition to use with personality
There is a well-known story told of the two dukes which shows exactly the personality of the men.
With the exception of Franklin and Washington, most of the potential personalities in the convention were under forty.
I was to help this weeping, sobbing thing, which was already to me as distinct a personality as anything I knew; or what should I say to Roland?
But the receiving of the Divine Personality into ourselves is an entirely New Thing, and so cannot be reached by reasoning from old things.
This descent is gradual from the expanded self-recognition of the highest human personality to that lowest order of visible forms which we speak of as "things," and from which self-recognition is entirely absent.
The one is limited by human personality, the other is based on the Infinitude of the Divine Personality; and because of this it includes human personality with all its powers over the Soul of Nature.
Rudyard Kipling tells us in his story of "Kim" how the boy used at times to lose his sense of personality by repeating to himself the question, Who is Kim?
We may therefore say without hesitation that, whatever may be the nature of its intelligence, it must be entirely devoid of the element of self-recognition as an individual personality on any scale whatever.
It has been hailed as a brand new discovery by those following the latest in psychology that the subconscious and the unconscious constitute a more essential component of the personality than the conscious.
Arthur Weldon, for his part, consoled himself by plunging into social distractions and devoting himself to Diana Von Taer, whose strange personality for a time fascinated him.
Some people seem to have given them at the outset a mere germ of personality like this, which must needs widen itself out in like fashion to be felt at all.
In a word, moral irresponsibility is the keynote of the volitional traits of the thymo-centric personality from childhood up.
That a return to more active personal operation will eventually take place is evidenced by the fact that the basis of all further evolution is the differentiating of the Undifferentiated Life of the Spirit into specific channels of work, through the intermediary of individual personality without which the infinite potentialities of the Creative Law cannot be brought to light.
"I paid a tribute to my friend, who was the dominant personality among the enemy.
Here religion and morality come very closely together: the recognition of a definite personality behind all circumstances of life, to whom our conduct matters, gives a soul to morality.
The years rolled away from her, and she was once more the Dahlia Wooster of the old yoicks-and-tantivy daysthe emotional, free-speaking girl who had so often risen in her stirrups to yell derogatory personalities at people who were heading hounds.
Maupassant shows in his stories that he is interested not so much in the free play or the full reaction of personality as in the enslavement of personality through passion or chance.
They drove on; the vision which had stimulated them to think vanished; they took up again those personalities about friends, acquaintances and social life that are to thinking somewhat as massage is to exerciseall the motions of real activity, but none of its spirit.
But there were those who seem to have known an inner and superior personality beneath the brusqueness, conceit, and policy, beyond the nerves and fears; and they valued it greatly, at least on the intellectual side.
"It must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" Mr. Buckle finds some general book-facts, and, never trying to think down to their roots, he seizes upon their specious aspect, and thence rushes out into a generalization, which, rightly understood, sweeps Personality off the earth.
I watched this peculiar and intensely highly-strung crowd with the greatest interest, and except for one figurea sort of cross between a Methodist parson and a Plymouth Brotherwas struck by the complete absence of personality amongst the people present.
As an illustration of the conduct aberrations of the thymo-centric personality during adult life, the following extracts from a newspaper report of a suicide are worth quoting.
" The words were ill-chosen and commonplace enough, and uttered in an accent indefinably strange to the bewildered listener, but the force of the man was tremendous, as he sent out his personality over the enormous crowd, on that high vibrant voice that controlled, it seemed, even those on the outskirts far up the roads on either side.
When we are convinced that this ideal completeness is quite normal, and is a spiritual fact, not dependent upon the body, but able to control the body, then we have got the solid basis on which to carry our objective personality along with us into the unseen, and the well-established laws of our mental constitution justify the belief that we can do so.
It was known to be Lord Byron's, and its publication was seized upon by the press as the occasion for many bitter criticisms, mingled with personalities against the writer's genius and character.