Quotes About Universal

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

yoga requires no formal allegiance. Because the yogic science satisfies a universal need, it has a natural universal applicability.

for a great dancer has no time, no generation, he moves eternally through the world, so that any dancer in any age may recognize him.

because white novelists are not white novelists but simply "novelists," and white characters are not white characters but simply "human," and criticism of both is not partial or personal but a matter of aesthetics. Such critics will always sound like the neutral universal, and the black women who have championed Their Eyes Were Watching God in the past, and the one doing so now, will seem like black women talking about a black book.

The happy ending is never universal. Someone is always left behind.

I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

Things like that gave me the first glimmering of the universal female gospel that all good traits and leanings come from the mother's side.

If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn't it affect everybody?

Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.

I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

Dance like any other art form has no language.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.

it was a reality shared by all the world, and not merely an optical delusion confined to their own eyes in their own garden.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.

The only way to argue this in a comprehensive way would be to adopt a universal skepticism about method. The most famous case for such skepticism is the 1975 book Against Method by maverick philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend. Feyerabend appeals to the history of science to argue that no methodological prescription has ever been consistently followed in science

Of course, in meeting Hume's challenge, we do have to concede that he was right in that no degree of evidence can confirm a universal generalization. However, it does not follow that we are slobbering dogs.

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It is no coincidence that music is called the universal language and used as a form of worship.