Universal Quotes

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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had… — Victor Hugo
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community… — B.F. Skinner
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of… — Albert Schweitzer
We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain… — Gordon B. Hinckley
If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle… — Jacob Lawrence
Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, — Evo Morales
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need. — Norman Cousins
Music is a language, a universal language. — Sun Ra
If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the… — Shai Linne
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in… — Eric Whitacre
When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's… — Erin Gray
There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone… — Alexis de Tocqueville
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, — W. E. B. Du Bois
On the stage on which we are observing it, â€” Universal History â€” Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.… — Walter Pater
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the… — Raymond Queneau
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers

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