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Quotes About Universality

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
One man's feeling is not always equal to all life is. Sometimes it's not equal to anything much at all.
~ Richard Flanagan
If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of authority and faith. But this distinction arises only in so far as the ecclesiastical side is in itself divided into several churches. Then only is the State seen to be superior to them, and wins and brings into existence the universality of thought as the principle of its form.
~ Karl Marx
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: 'Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe'
~ Paul Auster
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
~ John Ruskin
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
~ Immanuel Kant
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
~ John Drinkwater
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate
~ Seymour Papert
there can be only one type of person: universal explainers and constructors.
~ David Deutsch
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
~ David Hume
If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.
~ Judith Stone
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
~ Francis of Assisi
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.
~ Sara Genn
Seen from the moon we are all the same size.
~ Multatuli
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.
~ Linden MacIntyre
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~ Albert Einstein
What to me is truly frightful is not the quality of what everyone agrees on, but the very fact of universal agreement.
~ Alexander Nehamas
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,A hero perish or a sparrow fall,Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
~ Alexander Pope
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
~ Christopher Marlowe
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
~ F. Sionil Jose
I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.
~ Lauren Shuler Donner