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Quotes About Universal

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
~ Robert M. Lindner
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
~ Michel de Montaigne
There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"
~ Benicio Del Toro
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
~ Carl Jung
What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
~ Diogenes Laertius
For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~ Erich Fromm
Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.
~ Craig Clevenger
No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
~ Djuna Barnes
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and individual.
~ Terry Nardin
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
We need everyone who suffers to be a victim because only thus can we maintain our pretense to universal understanding and experience the warm glow of our own compassion, so akin to the warmth that a strong, stiff drink imparts in the cold.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
It has become all too typical of western youth, to mistake their personal angst for a universal political cause.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—
~ Thom Hartmann
In like manner humanity understood is only in this or that man; but that humanity be apprehended without conditions of individuality, that is, that it be abstracted and consequently considered as universal, occurs to humanity inasmuch as it is brought under the consideration of the intellect, in which there is a likeness of the specific nature, but not of the principles of individuality.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Also pertinent to these spirits is the execution of divine works which are done outside the order of nature, for these are most sublime among the divine ministrations... And if there be anything else that is universal and primary in the carrying out of divine ministrations, it is proper to assign it to this order.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Here lies a King that rul'd, as he thought fitThe universal monarchy of wit;Here lies two flamens, and both those the best:Apollo's first, at last the true God's priest.
~ Thomas Carew
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We called Dante the melodious Priest of Middle-Age Catholicism. May we not call Shakespeare the still more melodious Priest of a true Catholicism, the 'Universal Church' of the Future and of all times? No narrow superstition, harsh asceticism, intolerance, fanatical fierceness or perversion: a Revelation, so far as it goes, that such a thousandfold hidden beauty and divineness dwells in all Nature; which let all men worship as they can!
~ Thomas Carlyle