Universality Quotes

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not.

I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Music is everybody's possession.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

Truth is not private property.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.

Whatever the question, love is the answer.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.