Quotes About Universal

I have read Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat' in translation and marvelled at the emotions and its universal appeal and dreamt of authoring such a work in Telugu. 'Pyaasa' is the result.

If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.

Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment ]

The still revolutionary insight of Buddhism is that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. Mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience—the creator of happiness and the creator of suffering, the creator of what we call life and what we call death.

Do not make the mistake of imagining that the nature of mind is exclusive to our mind only. It is in fact the nature of everything. It can never be said too often that to realize the nature of mind is to realize the nature of all things.

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the eternal religion, because it is the universal religion which embraces all others.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Infinity means it is permeating all the finite things,

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone--for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

the potential for a mystical experience is the natural birthright of all human beings

seine Unbildung war auf allen Gebieten gleich universell«.

Come talvolta un artista, per dar prova delle proprie energie creative, cerca di proposito un soggetto esteriormente modesto invece di uno patetico e universale, così di tanto in tanto il destino cerca un eroe insignificante per dimostrare come anche da una materia scadente possa svilupparsi la più alta tensione, da un'anima debole e mal disposta una grandiosa tragedia.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favourite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.