Quotes About Universal

This is a world," he said, "in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do, to his friends and his tradition and his love, lest he be dissolved in a universal confusion and know nothing and love nothing. . . .

We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a universal language if we ourselves were universal in our sympathies.

In order to find God, we do not have to leave the world, to isolate ourselves from our fellow humans, and to plunge into some kind of mystical void. On the contrary, Christ is looking at us through the eyes of all those whom we meet. Once we recognize his universal presence, all our acts of practical service to others become acts of prayer.

You are like tango music itself, Kapka.' Julio says, catching his breath. 'You're the universal woman- wherever you go, you will always be a local and a stranger at the same time.

I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

Our love can be no more partial than Jesus' love for all those he died to save

The obligation to respect universal human rights has been voluntarily undertaken by most countries around the world, and rightly so. But all liberal democracies are built on top of states, whose jurisdiction is limited by their territorial reach. No state can undertake an unlimited obligation to protect people outside its jurisdiction, and whether the world would be better off if they all tried to do so is not clear.

La conexión entre ingreso y dignidad también sugiere por qué algo parecido a una renta universal garantizada, como solución a la pérdida de empleos por culpa de la automatización, no conseguirá la paz social ni hacer felices a quienes la reciban.

Una mujer mediocre es como un libro malo: hacen dudar de la literatura entera, de lo femenino universal

A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.

Why me?" There's a better question, of course: "Why not me?" Why should any of us be spared struggle, when struggle is a condition more universal than comfort, than satiation, than peace, maybe than love? Should we even be calling or thinking of it as struggle, which connotes an exertion beyond the usual, a deviation from the norm?

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own. p 284

Nature affords a universal means of healing and preserving men.

According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

I reckon failure to be the most universal unhappiness on earth. Almost everybody and everything are failures—failures in their own estimation, even if they are not so in the estimation of others. Those optimists who always think themselves successful are few in number, and they for the most part fail in this at least, namely, that they cannot persuade the rest of the world of their success.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The Great Spirit is the innermost Self of all creatures.

le fait que toute manifestation formelle implique des limites qui contribueront indirectement à sa fin, n'est pas une raison suffisante pour qu'une tradition ne se manifeste pas ; la parole du Christ : « Celui qui frappe par l'épée, périra par l'épée » est d'une portée universelle : celui qui affirme, périra par l'affirmation.

Ceux qui estiment que le fait de voir le mal est preuve de mauvaiseté (« le bon ne voit partout que du bien », etc.), sont les premiers à voir du mal dès qu'il s'agit d'orthodoxie, de dogmes, de culte, d'institutions sacerdotales ; en pratique c'est surtout le mal qui bénéficie de leur « amour universel ».

It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.

Shame is universal and one of the most primitive human emotions that we experience. The only people who don't experience shame are those who lack the capacity for empathy and human connection.

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: "… intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

Zen is not, in the end, a Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, or Indian path. It is a path for all human beings who are sincerely interested in coming to know themselves.