Quotes About Universal

En la honda noche universal que apenas contradicen los faroles

A lo largo de los siglos y de las latitudes cambian los nombres, los dialectos, las caras, pero no los eternos antagonistas.

Nothing reveals a poet's weakness like classical verse, and that's why it's so universally dodged.

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces.

The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed.

the single hero story that seemed to be repeating itself everywhere — in the oldest Sumerian epics, in folktales from the Pacific Islands and the Siberian forests and the African savannah, in the lives of great religious heroes like Gautama ?akyam?ni and Jesus, in the case notes of psychiatric patients

They come from every culture but with timeless themes. CAMPBELL: The themes are timeless, and the inflection is to the culture.

This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art...

Christianity has been wrongly accused of taking over all that was beautiful in anterior forms of worship; it is the last transfiguration of universal orthodoxy, and as such it has preserved whatsoever belonged to it, while rejecting dangerous practices and idle superstitions.

La générosité universelle est une langue sans mots, une vue sans vision, un corps sans acte, une preuve sans argumentation, c'est une source qui vient de la mer et des mystères de la mer.

Pour exciter le cheval, il faut exciter la mouche ; pour exciter la mouche, il faut exciter toutes les autres mouches, cercle vicieux comme hypothèse universelle, que l'humanité n'a jamais transgressé.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you." --from Past Present and Future are One

Only when you have a conscious working knowledge of these (Universal)laws are you able to be the Deliberate Creator of your own life experience

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

The happiness visible in the eye of the thinker is the happiness of mankind. The universal tendency towards suppression goes against thought as such. Such thought is happiness, even where unhappiness prevails. Thought achieves happiness in the expression of unhappiness. Who ever refuses to permit this thought to be taken from him, has not resigned.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

Our industry holds a musical perception about each emotion that we depict in our narrative. As music composers, our job is either to cater to that particular need or give it a contrast that grows on the audience in a way that it begins to sound more universal, than just obvious and expected.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of English, the wrong connotation was given to it.

Whereas stories are fit for every place, reach to all persons, serve for all times, teach the living, revive the dead, so far excelling all other books, as it is better to see learning in Noblemen's lives, than to read it in Philosophers' writings.