Universal Quotes

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Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It… — David R. Hawkins
The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism. — Derek R. Audette
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and… — J. Michael Straczynski
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at… — Friedrich Schiller
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
The universal subjugator, the commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. — Will Durant
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it… — Marcus Aurelius
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. — William Shakespeare
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know… — Thomas Carlyle
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… — Arthur Koestler
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes… — Washington Irving
One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must… — May Sarton
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy… — George William Curtis
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. — Herman Melville

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