Quote by Alain de Benoist

“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How”

— Lesslie Newbigin

“Universals cannot become particulars and particulars cannot become universals, but universals exist according to degrees and particulars exist according to conditions.”

— Manly P. Hall

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

— Plato

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars…

— Aime Cesaire

There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles”

— Seth Czerepak

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

“We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“just because universal concepts result only from thinking away and leaving out actual and existing determinations, and are therefore the emptier the more universal…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.

— Wolfgang Pauli

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal…

— Swami Paramananda