Quotes About Universality

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

all men are the same age.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Genius is of no country.

There is no law governing all things.

if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves the standards they apply to others -- more stringent ones, in fact -- plainly cannot be taken seriously when they speak of appropriateness of response; or of right and wrong, good and evil

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism.

Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.

one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality

There were hours when every last person on Earth thought they were the last person on Earth, and it was precisely this thought of final, irrevocable isolation that united them all.

T]he real danger does not lie in the fact that there is a lack or a loss of universality of knowledge among the specialists. The true danger lies in the pretense and claim of totality of knowledge.

She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...

If it is dark, all men are black.

Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I'll live and die in every possible way?

A movement had begun, and the discovery of universality spurred it forward. In the summer of 1977, two physicists, Joseph Ford and Giulio Casati, organized the first conference on a science called chaos. It was held in a gracious villa in Como, Italy

Still, to understand how the human mind sorts through the chaos of perception, surely one would need to understand how disorder can produce universality.

God was God's name just as his name was Stephen. Dieu was the French for God and that was God's name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said Dieu then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying. But though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God.

What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire? Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level:

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.