Universal Quotes

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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… — Hannah Arendt
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least… — J. J. Abrams
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal… — David Attenborough
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. — Francis Bacon
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of… — Alain Badiou
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop… — Afrika Bambaataa
I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real… — Roseanne Barr
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the… — Charles Baudelaire
Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal… — Gary Bauer
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. — Henry Ward Beecher
Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;… — Annie Besant
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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