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Quotes About Universal

Everyone gets scared," like it's some big profound statement?
~ Elizabeth Scott
What I mean is, this is not just a woman's story. It's what happens to a lot of us, if we are lucky enough to hear that detail and pay attention
~ Elizabeth Strout
sometimes just feel sorry for everyone in this whole wide world?" And
~ Elizabeth Strout
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
~ Arthur Henderson
Wilson was raising America up as the new global colossus based on its moral authority as a universal nation.
~ Arthur Herman
For Plato, then, all certain knowledge requires an element of abstraction from concrete reality. Through Socrates, Plato tells us to constantly reach for the highest level of knowledge beyond mere individual examples, toward a universal standard for judgment that will give us a stronger, more confident position for acting in the world.
~ Arthur Herman
Ever since the emperor Constantine had invested dominion over the Church in the bishop of Rome,‡ successive popes had borrowed his Neoplatonist vocabulary of imperial authority to describe their own. The Catholic Church saw itself as a Platonic copy of the true Universal Church, the Body of Christ. And just as the Body of Christ has only one head, went the argument, so also must Christian society. God
~ Arthur Herman
The Sistine ceiling contains no direct references to Christianity or Christ. Michelangelo the Platonist didn't feel the need for any, because his message is more universal. Instead all the scenes are from the Old Testament, which every Renaissance Platonist knew to be the ground zero of docta religio, the true religion shared by all peoples and faiths.
~ Arthur Herman
In effect, Aristotle's logic offered the possibility of creating a universally true science out of anything—or of deconstructing claims of being a science.
~ Arthur Herman
One could say that Aristotle had turned Plato on his head. Instead of the individual being a pale copy of a more real abstract form, the universal is less real (indeed only a copy) of the individual.15 This reversal left Aristotle's philosophy with a built-in bias in favor of the individual: in science, in metaphysics, in ethics, and later in politics.
~ Arthur Herman
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
No hay en la Historia universal obra comparable a la realizada por España (RAMIRO DE MAEZTU).
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men. You do not understand to what extent I desire this, and if some of you do understand, you do not understand the full extent of my desire.
~ Ashoka the Great
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
~ Auguste Rodin
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people--or, rather, there aren't any right people.
~ B.F. Skinner
When I first teach people my Behavior Model, they are sometimes a little dubious when I tell them this is a universal model. They wonder how one model with just four letters could possibly account for every kind of behavior in every culture.
~ B.J. Fogg
Our Parusa or Universal Soul is an abiding reality. It is logical, but remains conceptual to our minds under we experience it;s realization within ourselves.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is not meant to be a religion or dogmas for any one culture. While yoga sprang from the soil of India, it is meant as a universal path, a way open to all regardless of their birth and background.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
~ Brian Eno
'The Little Rascals' was set against the background of the Great Depression: the characters were living in poverty. It's just that it wasn't focused on it. It was focused on what makes childhood universal. We're all laughing at kids because we see ourselves in them; we remember our childhood.
~ Sean Baker
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.
~ Ryan Holiday
When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.
~ Charlie Puth
Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds.
~ Steven Levy