Universals Quotes

There aren't any universals. You need to look at your proximity to your relatives, your health?I tell clients it's unique to their own situation. - Lou Stanasolovich

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules far
more often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways,
and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether. - Steven Pinker

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 to be shot at dawn. - Catharine MacKinnon

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars. - Aristotle

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, mechanism, materialism. - 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 to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars. - Giambattista Vico

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

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 history are singulars. - Aristotle

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. - Bertrand Russell