Quotes About Universal

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.

Handle so, daß die Maxime deines Willens jederzeit zugleich als Prinzip einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung gelten könne.

Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...

Handle nur nach derjenigen Maxime, durch die du zugleich wollen kannst, dass sie ein allgemeines Gesetz werde.

Obra como si la máxima de tu acción pudiera ser erigida, por tu voluntad, en ley universal de la naturaleza

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I should never act in such a way that I could not also will that my maxim should be a universal law.

Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.

Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.

Chisels and hammers may suffice to work a piece of wood, but for etching we require an etcher's needle. Thus common sense and speculative understanding are both useful, but each in its own way: the former in judgments which apply immediately to experience; the latter when we judge universally from mere concepts, as in metaphysics, where sound common sense, so called in spite of the inappropriateness of the word, has no right to judge at all.

Dying is the most universal and arguably most difficult of life events. Pretty much by definition, dying people are as sick as they have ever been.

He wanted to be a universal man . . . and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him.

People who act on their moral courage will always encounter disapproval. To have moral courage is to challenge conformity within our own tribes--be they religious, cultural, ideological or professional--and to do so for a more universal good.

How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time, had faced a decision to strike for freedom

A work of art meant growth from the particular to the universal. To a work of art, time brought timelessness.

Toat? marea literatur? are un caracter universal. Altfel piere.

There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society.

The theory of universal gravitation is not cast-iron. No theory is, and there is always room for improvement. Isn't that so? Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth. . . Well, that means all theories are subject to constant testing and modification, doesn't it? And if it eventually turns out that they're not quite close enough to the truth, they need to be replaced by something that's closer. Right?

Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.

Common belief, even universal belief, is not, in itself, evidence.

CâÈ›i p?mânteni nu reacÈ›ioneaz? printr-o ur? oarb? fa?? de toÈ›i cet??enii galactici, f?r? deosebire? E o boal? aproape universal? - ur? pentru ur?. Doresc concet??enii dumneavostr? cu adev?rat egalitate, toleran?? reciproc?? Nu! Cei mai mulÈ›i nu vor decât s? se-ntoarc? roata, aducându-i pe ei deasupra.

La violencia contra las mujeres es universal y tan antigua como la civilización misma. Cuando se habla de derechos humanos, en la práctica se habla de derechos de los hombres. Si un hombre es golpeado y privado de libertad, es tortura. Si lo mismo soporta una mujer se llama violencia doméstica

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.