Top 38 Quotes About Universals
#1. For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#2. In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
J.L. Austin
#3. Complex adaptations like "being a little selfish" and "not being willing to
work without reward" are human universals. The strength might vary a bit
from person to person, but everyone's got the same machinery under the
hood, we're just painted different colors.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#4. 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 level as food and sex.
Fredric Lieberman
#5. TO FORM GROUPS, drawing visceral comfort and pride from familiar fellowship, and to defend the group enthusiastically against rival groups - these are among the absolute universals of human nature and hence of culture.
Edward O. Wilson
#6. Leonardo da Vinci had foreseen that beginning humanistically with mathematics one has only particulars and will never come to universals or meaning, but will end only with mechanics. It
Francis A. Schaeffer
#7. 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
#8. University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.
Kate Cruise O'Brien
#9. I know a few universals like: he who can destroy a thing controls it. Not that I get off on destroying things but when you get backed against a wall, coming out with both guns blazing is pretty much your only choice. I want enough power to void a contract, enough to quit my job, permanent-like.
Karen Marie Moning
#10. We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#11. So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.
Zach Braff
#12. If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.
J. Budziszewski
#13. 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 and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.
Clare Vanderpool
#14. If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato
#15. Universals cannot become particulars and particulars cannot become universals, but universals exist according to degrees and particulars exist according to conditions.
Manly P. Hall
#16. 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
#17. Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.
Orrin Woodward
#18. 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
#19. The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#20. The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.
Stefan Molyneux
#21. I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#22. Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.
Gad Saad
#23. Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Francisco Goya
#24. Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell
#25. 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 true regardless of time and place.
Jeffrey Tucker
#26. 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 the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
Fredric Jameson
#27. You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in. He has to see how 'You shouldn't push even though you want to' isn't the same as 'You shouldn't wear a dress even though you want to.
Laurie Frankel
#28. The worst part about her new chambers was that all these wardrobes and vanities and drapes meant there was no space--none at all--for a bookcase. Who on earth could feel comfortable enough to sleep in a room with no books?
Cynthia Hand
#29. And when they saw the somewhat extravagant tattoo I have on my back - a half of a SEAL Trident (Morgan has the other half) - they damn near fainted.
Marcus Luttrell
#30. Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
Margaret Atwood
#31. He doesn't look like the kind of person that could kill anyone? She thought. - Immortal Door
Marion Tucker
#32. Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.
John Yoo
#33. My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane. Now, I expected her to pay up.
Katie McGarry
#34. Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.
Thomas Hardy
#35. This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
Muhammad Yunus
#36. I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema ... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
Jacqueline Bisset
#37. We are type designers, punch cutters, wood cutters, type founders, compositors, printers, and book binders from conviction and with passion, not because we are insufficiently talented for other higher things, but because for us the highest things stand in close kinship to those ends
Rudolph Koch
