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

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

“An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.”

“what is fiction in particular is truth in general.”

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

“‎The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. They pay attention to a wide range of events; they search for relationships between things; and they think you can't understand the part without understanding the whole. Westerners live in a simpler, more deterministic world; they focus on salient objects or people instead of the larger picture; and they think they can control events because they know the rules that govern the behavior of objects.”

“He scowled at the world in general, and me in particular.”