General and Particular

"It is just this passing on and being unable to linger, this tacit assent to the primacy of the general over the particular, which constitutes not only the deception of idealism in hypostasizing concepts, but also its inhumanity, that has no sooner accepted the particular than it reduces it to a thought station [...] Knowledge can only widen horizons by abiding so insistently with the particular that its isolation is dispelled."

Adorno, Minima Moralia