Universal Quotes - Page 31

• Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Reality, Way

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• I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Philosophy, Teaching, Taken

  "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.

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• There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

  Roland Allen

  Reality, Wrath, Race

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.70, Gideon House Books

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• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Powerful, Children

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• The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Peace, Fear, Military

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• I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

  Steve Israel

  Retirement, Believe, Mean

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• Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations”

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize the kinship of the human race - the sanctity of human life and freedom, peace between nations, honesty and truthfulness, regard for the rights of others, and love of one's fellows.

  Ephraim Katzir

  Honesty, Rights, Race

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• ...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Light, Becoming One

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• To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  Evelyn Fox Keller

  Science, Mortality, Claims

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• Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

  Aristotle

  Essence, Substance, Study

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• There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Community, Domestic Violence

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• The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Science, Drug

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• Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

  Piet Mondrian

  Life, Art, Giving

  "The new art - the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian".

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• Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

  Tristan Tzara

  Art, People, Interesting

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• Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Believe, Pythagorean Theorem, Rights

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.32, Vintage

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• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Abstract

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

  James E. Faust

  Responsibility, Church, Missionary

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• The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
  He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
  But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
  given to administer we presently imagine we own.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Law, Weakness

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14671, Delphi Classics

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• The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Journey, Self, Creating

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• The regional voice is the universal voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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• A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

  Alan Turing

  Men, Discipline, Machines

  "Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing". Submitted to the National Physical Laboratory in 1948. "Key Papers: Cybernetics". Book edited by C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson, 1968.

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• The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Internet, Readership, Concepts

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• The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Teacher, Home, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”

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