Universal Quotes

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We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a… — Frederic Bastiat
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples… — Frank Chodorov
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us… — Walter Russell
I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is within, so long… — Walter Russell
The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.' — Walter Russell
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator… — Walter Russell
I have no limitations. Unlimited power is mine within that which is universal. — Walter Russell
Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary… — Michel de Montaigne
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law...… — Joseph LeConte
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There… — Charles Francis Richter
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein
Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul… — John Owen
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so. — Paul Valery
The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of… — Isaac Newton
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — Immanuel Kant
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the… — Abraham Lincoln

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