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Most Western people dislike abstract generalities: they prefer concrete facts. They believe in first appearances rather than in second views. Against such a tendency truth must struggle bravely for survival. If Westerners were more balanced they would realize they could keep their facts and their first views--nobody asks them to disregard the practical and the apparent--but they could also have the abstract and the long view, thus achieving balance, and with it, truth.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 3 : The Development of Intellect > # 49