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Quotes About Universal

Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and necessary reliability, then even human reason itself would be inferior to the unfailing and infallible instinct of insects.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
If you inquire what the people are like here,I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.
~ John Ernst Worrell Keely
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
~ Chris Cavanaugh
The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.
~ Dalai Lama
The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.
~ Ernie Hudson
Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?
~ Louis Mackey
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
~ Martin Amis
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.
~ Robert Genn
The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.
~ Scott Kahn
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
~ Wangari Maathai
Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law
~ David Clement-Davies, Fell
It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Because history is a rational process, universal history is the manifestation of a "Spirit whose nature is always one and the same, but which unfolds this its one nature in the phenomena of the World's existence.
~ E. Michael Jones
How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perhaps by the stones?
~ E.M. Forster
This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.
~ Edgar Cayce
This may be set as a criterion to any-yes, 'to all: When such an experiment, such a trial, draws or tires, or makes the mind foggy or dull or become as a drain upon the physical energies, know you are attuning wrong-and static has entered, from some source! For the universal consciousness is constructive, not destructive in any manner-but ever constructive in its activity with the elements that make up an entity's experience in the physical consciousness. 792-2
~ Edgar Cayce