„Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.“

— Buckminster Fuller
„The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„To resign oneself or to blow out one's brains, that is the choice one faces at certain moments. In any case, the only real dignity is that of exclusion.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Each age is characterized by its own astronomical myriads of new, special-case experiences and problems to be stored in freshly born optimum capacity human brains — which storages in turn may disclose to human minds the presence of heretofore undiscovered, unsuspectedly existent eternal generalized principles.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.“
— Harper Lee
„The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„Our riches, being in our brains, die with us… Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.“
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
„Any given case must be treated on its special merits.“
— Theodore Roosevelt