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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism. -- D. H. Lawrence
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. -- Plato
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. -- Bertrand Russell
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. -- Aristotle
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. -- Catharine MacKinnon
A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations. -- Fredric Jameson
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break. -- Stefan Molyneux
I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory. -- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex. -- Fredric Lieberman
Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place. -- Jeffrey Tucker
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars. -- Giambattista Vico
In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder. -- J. L. Austin

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