Universal Quotes

“Neighborship is a universal dialectic phenomenon. Good neighborship has a contingent status since it may procure either balance, trust and peace of mind or entail limits, barriers, and fences that can be a protection or conjure up feelings of exclusion, creating inhibitions and frustrations.( "Beware of the neighbor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Every unique thing in nature is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

In geometric harmony of the cosmos there are ways that resemble, there are universal patterns, from blood vessels, to winter trees or to a river delta, from nautilus shell to spiral galaxy, from neurons in the brain to the cosmic web.

A whole universe of connections is in your mind – a universe within a universe – and one capable of reaching out to the other that gave rise to it. Billions of neurons touching billions of stars – surely spiritual.”
― Alejandro Mos Riera

“To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
All pray in their distress:
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is God, our father dear:
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is Man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew.
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.”
― William Blake, Songs of Innocence

“If desire were really one to one, self to self, there would never be a problem of infidelity, but desire will always, without confusion, demand a particular class, Caring for a unique object is an illusion, but the feeling must be unique, and though that feeling may not be natural, it is duty. You must love your neighbour like yourself, uniquely. From the personal point of view, sexual desire, because of its impersonal and unchanging character, is a comic contradiction. The relation between every pair of lovers is unique, but in bet they can only do what all mammals do. All the relation in friendship a relationship of spirit, can be unique. In sexual relationship love the only uniqueness can be fidelity.”
― W.H. Auden, Lectures on Shakespeare

“Why are mathematical games so universal? I truly don't know. But perhaps it's because the universe is so mathematical.”
― Ben Orlin, Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter

“Universality is a universality of 'strangers', of individuals reduces to the abyss of impenetrability in relation not only to others but also to themselves. [...] That's why the privileged way to reach a Neighbor is not that of empathy, of trying to understand them, but a disrespectful laughter which makes fun of them and us in our mutual lack of (self-)understanding (inclusive of 'racist' jokes)”
― Slavoj Žižek, Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

“If the world is listening to your music, then you have made really a good music! If only those in your country are listening to your music, sit down and make music again! Keep making music until the whole world is your listener!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No matter how powerful a waterfall is, it cannot be heard from far away because all waterfalls are local! If you want the whole world to hear you, take a universal position where all can see you, just like the Moon, just like the Sun!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As soon as the single individual asserts himself in his singularity before the universal, he sins; and only by acknowledging this can he be reconciled again with the universal”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard

“I write on every subject as the universal point of view at the large-scale than the specific way, but I point that out without the direct mark of a particular group or person.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The knowledge of the little child's mental development has to become widely diffused, for only then will education be able to speak with a new voice, and say to the world with authority: "The laws of life are such and such. They can not be ignored. You must act in conformity with them, for they proclaim the rights of man which are universal and common to all.”
― Montessori, Maria

“Trust in God, for he has a plan for the universe, and you are an integral part of the plan.”
― Nozer Kanga, Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment

“We’ll never be measured in life by our opinions. Only by our actions. Love and kindness will always be the universal truth that will never change.”
― Ron Baratono

“It is, as it were, the fundamental principle of cognition that the universal can be perceived only in the particular, while the particular can be thought only in reference to the universal.”
― Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

“Everything that happens in my life— the positive and what seems like the negative— is leading me somewhere for my highest good. All is well. I am safe.”
― Tammy Mastroberte, The Universe Is Talking to You: Tap into Signs & Synchronicity to Reveal Magical Moments Every Day

“there are no accidents or coincidences. The Universe always knows what it’s doing.”
― Tammy Mastroberte, The Universe Is Talking to You: Tap into Signs & Synchronicity to Reveal Magical Moments Every Day

“If you are an artist at all, you will be not the mouthpiece of a century, but the master of eternity.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students

“The girls, their feet in the cold water, utter cries like a seagull's. Moreover, they are immediately transformed into seagulls, and these in turn into the obscure object of desire, swaying and waddling like the ostrich at the end of Buñuel's film. The summer has arrived.

I was very anxious she might be disappointed and I could never have forgiven her for that. I shall never forgive anyone who passes a condescending or contemptuous judgement on America.

They are at the centre of the world and they don't know it. What they prefer is to be at the centre of books and the earth.

Only sequoias have the heroic, fabulous, antediluvian stature of the first days of the world, being contemporary with the great prehistoric animals. And indeed their scaley bark resembles a carapace. They are the only trees on a par with the geological and mineral scenario of the deserts. After them it is the little species that have triumphed.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“It is not in my power to prove to a fool what is vs what is not.”
― William Earnest

“Whatever the case may be, there is a major inconsistency in continuing to use a discourse of the universal as a discourse of reference when it has no meaning or effect anywhere - neither with global power nor in opposition to it.
To relativize our concept of the universal: with the increasing globalization of the world, discrimination becomes more ferocious.
The cartography should not confuse these zones beyond reality with those that still give signs of reality in the same hegemonic system of globalization, even though they do not function in the same way. We could even say that the gap separating them is growing and something that was only a cultural singularity in a non-unified world becomes real discrimination in a globalized universe. The more the world is globalized, the worst the discrimination.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power

“Language necessarily involves bringing any particular under more and more general and universal labels. That’s what conceptualization is all about: reducing particular things to fewer and fewer generalizations and universals, until, ultimately, reality is reduced to just one universal, the supreme concept that explains everything. This one concept is the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). The whole point of concepts is to reach more and more general and universal levels until we ultimately arrive at one concept – the ultimate universal which explains the whole of reality. That concept is the PSR.”
― Thomas Stark, The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes

“Language teleologically seeks to express its most general form, to attain the universal. The universal language is unique. It is mathematics.”
― Thomas Stark, The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes

“Oh yes, there are racists everywhere. Hatred is universal. There are no geographical barriers to narrow, bitter little minds.”
― Douglas Skelton, Thunder Bay

“We are all linked by a mesh of energies that we contain within us.”
― Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings)

“Inventions are Personal But An Idea is Always Universal.”
― Pradip Bendkule

“If your ideas are only about the world, then you have very local ideas! You must universalize your ideas to include the space above your head!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Extreme specialization has been the greatest disaster of the modern academic world. It has created narrow Mandarins, ignorant of the universal nature of reality, incapable of connecting concepts from different fields to bring everything together in one ultimate, unified subject. The AC is everything the academic world is not. It’s about connecting everything. It demands that people be generalists, not the most narrow, blinkered specialists.”
― David Sinclair

“It’s not about the Game of Thrones, it’s about the game of universals versus particulars, thinking versus sensing. Which side are you on? Who shall wear the crown? – the Senser or the Thinker. Do you even need to think about that?”
― David Sinclair, Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War

“Light is massless, maximally time dilated and maximally length contracted. It’s immaterial. It’s mind! Light is the carrier wave of the universe. It’s the universal, the absolute, condition regarding which all material particulars are relative. Light is the Singularity. Light is mind, light is life. Light is God. Light endures forever, meaning that life and mind endure forever. Light is absolute. It has an absolute speed. All particulars come from light.”
― David Sinclair, Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War

“To be a part of the universal is just to be,
and to want anything out of life undermines life itself.
This life is neutral to me and you.
This life does not give a shit about what you think it owes you.”
― Belle Townsend, Push and Pull