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

— Manly P. Hall

“Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily.”

— Alain de Benoist

“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

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

— Plato

“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

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'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

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

— Zazie Beetz

“Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles”

— Seth Czerepak

“As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to know about everything, we must know a little about everything, because it is…

— Blaise Pascal

“Yet the only place where such universal principles exist is in the fertile imagination of Sapiens, and in the myths they invent and tell…

— Yuval Noah Harari