Quotes About Universality

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

But two and two do equal four. Unless you give some strange, special meaning to equal. You can count it off for yourself: one two three four. If two and two really equalled three then everything would collapse into chaos. We would be in another universe, with other physical laws. In the existing universe two and two equal four. It is a universal rule, independent of us, not man-made at all. Even if you and I were to cease to be, two and two would go on equalling four.

El espacio es sólo espacio, la vida sólo es vida, igual en todas partes.

This world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is.

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place.

The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them

En otras palabras, después de las leyes de la física, lo demás es una opinión.

No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John

Look up and we're all looking at the same sky.

Mant???n evrensel bir silah olduÄŸuna inanm??t?m her zaman; ÅŸimdiyse mant???n geçerliÄŸinin onun nas?l kullan?ld???na baÄŸl? olduÄŸunun bilincine var?yordum.

Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality. A reason is an offer of a ground for thinking or feeling or doing something. And it isn't a ground for me, unless it's a ground for you. If someone really thinks that some group of people genuinely doesn't matter at all, he will suppose they are outside the circle of those to whom justifications are due.

Kant, the result of this universality is that the wild-man, the natural man, as well as the bourgeois, are circumscribed by the same definition and have the same basic qualities.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are beautiful things in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them. He put the cigarette down. Smoke rose from the ashtray, first in a thin column then (with a nod to universality) in broken tendrils that swirled up to the ceiling.

The more specific you are the more general it'll be.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.