Universal Quotes

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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about… — Diane Setterfield
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not… — John Dewey
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than… — Charles Darwin
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of… — Henry David Thoreau
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the… — Ray Bradbury
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology… — Don DeLillo
Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if… — Chris Crutcher
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond… — Karl Marx
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded. — Anya Seton
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. — Bruce Lee
Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls — David O. McKay
You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,â€™I am here, I am here, I am here. — Kurt Vonnegut
I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either… — Herman Melville
No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to… — Josh Groban
I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and… — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from… — Douglas Coupland

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