Quotes About Universal

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone, and it may be that the virtue or possible insight I get from being so obviously alone-- being physically and in every way absolutely alone much of the time-- is a way into the universal state of man. The way in which one handles this absolute aloneness is the way in which one grows up, is the great psychic journey of everyman.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time

Everyone complained. Complaint was universal.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Some of the deepest truths are simple, when seen in the clearest light, and it takes a lucid intellect to grasp them so thoroughly that their simplicity can be brought into that light and offered to all, not just the privileged few.

The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, makes universal co-operation possible, unreason, since it represents private passions, makes strife inevitable. It is for this reason that rationality, in the sense of an appeal to a universal and impersonal standard of truth, is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species.

When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

This argument, expressed in Latin—which is held to make any nonsense respectable—has been erected by the Catholic Church into a first principle: that we cannot err in believing what has been believed always, everywhere, and by everybody. Those who use this argument conveniently forget how many once universal beliefs are now discarded.

The discovery of geometry had intoxicated them, and its a priori deductive method appeared capable of universal application. They would prove, for instance, that all reality is one, that there is no such thing as change, that the world of sense is a world of mere illusion; and the strangeness of their results gave them no qualms because they believed in the correctness of their reasoning.

a priori knowledge such as mathematics or logic is general, whereas all experience is particular.

This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt as to the truth of the new religion, ordered one of the courtiers to adopt it experimentally; if he prospered more than the others, the religion was to be adopted universally. This is the method (with modifications to suit modern times) which the pragmatists advocate in regard to all religious controversies.

I must, before I die, find some means of saying the essential thing which is in me, which I have not yet said, a thing which is neither love nor hate nor pity nor scorn but the very breath of life, shining and coming from afar, which will link into human life the immensity, the frightening, wondrous and implacable forces of the non-human.

Ve yine bence, kaleme al?nd??? ÅŸekliyle, tek bir virgülünü dahi deÄŸiÅŸtirme gereÄŸi olmaks?z?n, Ä°nsan Haklar? Evrensel Bildirisi, ilkelerin doÄŸruluÄŸu ve hedeflerin berrakl??? bak?m?ndan, yeryüzündeki bütün siyasi parti programlar?n?n lay?k?yla yerine geçebilir.

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

The USPS is self-funding; it does not receive support from tax dollars, and it is required to serve the entire country.

The best thing about universal free school meals is that they would remove one of the embarrassing signals, easily picked up by children's supersensitive antennae, of family poverty.

I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.