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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,… — Aristotle
- If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. — Plato
- Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm… — D. H. Lawrence
- Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up… — Giambattista Vico
- So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone… — Catharine MacKinnon
- No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it… — Unknown Author
- Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — Aristotle
- Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People… — Clare Vanderpool
- Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against… — Jeffrey Tucker
- A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything… — Fredric Jameson
- We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind'… — Hans Rookmaaker
- Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. — Bertrand Russell