Quotes About Universality

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater belief in the universality of human rights and there was enough prosperity to make us question why we had not committed more resources to upholding the values we claimed to hold most dear.

What is there to confess that's worthwhile or useful? What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

È una regola della vita che si possa (anzi, si debba) imparare da tutti. Ci sono cose della serietà della vita che possiamo imparare da ciarlatani e da banditi, ci sono filosofie che gli stolti possono insegnarci, ci sono lezioni di fermezza e di legge che provengono dal caso e da coloro che fanno parte del caso. Tutto è in ogni cosa.

Independently of me the grass grows, the rain falls on the grass that grows, and the sun shines on the patch of grass that grew or will grow; the hills have been there for ages, and the wind blows in the same way as when Homer heard it, even if he didn't exist.

Not everybody's a baseball fan.

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.

we are not Qabalists to prove the Bible is holy—we are Qabalists because everything is holy.

She knew that the world was not created to speak just to her, and yet, as with her son, sometimes things did.

What is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition of our unreason endows with divine attributes.

First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting. Philosophy wisdom (sagesse) is the philosophizer's quite personal affair. It must arise as His wisdom, as his self-acquired knowledge tending toward universality, a knowledge for which he can answer from the beginning, and at each step, by virtue of his own absolute insights.

I'm a seriously flawed individual, but I guess everybody is.

No hay en esta idea-forma del cuadrado nada personal ni evolutivo. Escapa, por emplear nuestro lenguaje moderno, de las variaciones subjetivas. El cuadrado de Pedro no difiere en nada del cuadrado de Pablo o de Diego. Única y objetiva, esta idea-forma es la misma para todos. Frente a millones de cosas cuadradas —existentes, desaparecidas o por venir—, existe una sola idea-forma de cuadrado y solo una.

in the midst of suffering, it was important to remember one thing: everyone suffered. Some more, some less; some now, some later; some in one way, some in another. But no one was exempt. It was, he said, a lesson, not a punishment. She closed her eyes and bowed her head. Some women were given children; others were not. Some women had parents

What unites us universally is our emotions, our feelings in the face of experience, and not necessarily the actual experiences themselves.

I was profoundly shy growing up, and my sense of human sociality was of something from which I was barred: almost like a room with a locked door for which I did not have the key. Perhaps that was it: gender seemed like a key to a lock, which I did not have, or which I did not fit. Looking back, I think I decided to self-girl when I went to university, as I was exhausted by not fitting or not fitting in.

Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and gravitation that he had discovered.

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.

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers.

A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we are talking about, and all is chaos.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.