The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries…

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive…

— Francis Bacon

“The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if concepts”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what…

— Daniel Bell

...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept…

— Paul Halmos

“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to do, then…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than…

— John Keats

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are…

— Augustus Hare

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

— C. S. Lewis

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

— Henry Fielding

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called,…

— Samuel Johnson

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

— Zig Ziglar