“Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.”

“The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither”

“Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.”

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”

“For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”

“Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.”