Quotes About Universality

The unavoidable implication is that the struggle for emancipation is a never-ending one—it always fails; it always falls short of its objective. Reaching a destination inevitably brings with it killjoys and spoilers, making for new struggles. But this should come as no surprise since universality, after all, is about the very absence of meaning—impossible to reach, possess, or fully realize. Struggle, struggle again, struggle better.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

I think that when you're young, you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You're anxious; the world seems like a scary place. You don't know where you're going to fit in, what you're gonna do with your life - but actually, life has a way of sorting itself out, and universal law takes over.

Where do I really belong? I avoid saying everywhere - which switches all too easily to nowhere. Instead, when pressed, I call myself a fractalist.

All places are distant from heaven alike.

The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location.

Never fall into the mistake of believing, said the examiner, that things are everywhere the way they are here, wherever here is, wherever everywhere is.

Do any exceptions exist to the universality of hybrid organizations? The only exceptions that come to my mind are conglomerates, which are typically organized in a totally mission-oriented form. Why are they an exception to our rule? Because they do not have a common business purpose.

He also thinks death is important. How can it be? It's the most commonplace thing on Earth, the

But not all books must be universally approved or applauded to bring meaning; books are, ultimately, the most personal of media. They can be important to only one person or to only a few people, and yet because of that they still have tremendous influence.

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.

Showing Christ as African, Asian, or Central American underlines the universality of his humanity. The depiction of the Holy Spirit as a hummingbird rather than a dove on the Mexican cruz de ánimas (Fig. 9.2) is a modest but striking instance of using meaningful visual language for a particular culture.

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

When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

There is no one-size-fits-all spiritual practice or pointer. One person will gravitate to a highly structured approach, another to an approach that is more open and spontaneous. For some, meditating daily on a schedule or practicing with a group may be essential. For others, these activities just get in the way. What we need in one moment may be different from what we need in another moment. There is no one right way. This universe is magnificently diverse and playful.

The simple truth is this: Most humans are very much alike. The simple and obvious truth is that there are very few variables to what a person might do, think, fear or desire in any given situation.

This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.