Purpose Quote by Plato

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

— Manly P. Hall

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

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

— Lesslie Newbigin

“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

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

— Zazie Beetz

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

In the particular is contained the universal.

— James Joyce

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

— Anonymous

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

In the particular lies the universal.

— James Victore

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

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas B. Macaulay