Universals Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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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…
— Aristotle
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
— Plato
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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,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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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…
— Giambattista Vico
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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…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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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…
— Fredric Lieberman
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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
— Aristotle
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Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired…
— Clare Vanderpool
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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…
— Jeffrey Tucker
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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…
— Fredric Jameson
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We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
— Bertrand Russell
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I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind…
— Charles Stross
Who Wrote These Universals Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Universals Quotes as follows: