Universal Quotes

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.