Universal Quotes - Page 38

• There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards the universal. The struggle of the individual against the universal may be seen both in the world war and in modern art.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, War, Struggle

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• When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Issues, Criminals, Honest

  "NRA: More Gun Control Not A Serious Proposal" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• No one promised you there would be universal justice.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Justice, Would Be

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• Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

  GZA

  Hip Hop, Enlightenment, Hips

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• From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a labor and an aspiration towards union. We seem to sense that - whether we conceive it as a divine Being or as a cosmic energy - the Spirit working upon and within all creation is shaping it into order, harmony, and beauty, uniting all beings (some willing but the majority as yet blind and rebellious) with each other through links of love, achieving - slowly and silently, but powerfully and irresistibly - the Supreme Synthesis.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Struggle, Views, Order

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Fall, Men, Levels

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• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  Abbe Pierre

  People, Despair, Should

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Independent

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• The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

  Gail Godwin

  Focus, Strange, Infinite

  Gail Godwin, Shannon Ravenel (1985). “The Best American short stories, 1985”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Quests, Hinduism

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• It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

  C.J. Sansom

  Life, People, Doe

  C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.202, Penguin

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• In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.

  Jack Weatherford

  Religious, Determination, Army

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• I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Country, Brother, Good Life

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• No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Simplicity, Mind

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

  Martha Stout

  Sympathy, Fear, Compassion

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.107, Harmony

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• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Reality, Share, Propensity

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• Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice,
  without death, disease, or conflict.

  Timothy Keller

  Fall, Reality, Order

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• I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Responsibility, Convinced

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

  S. N. Goenka

  Vipassana, Way, Taught

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.4, Pariyatti Publishing

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• Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Passports

  "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.

  Eric Ludy

  Running, Spiritual, Tired

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• There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

  Dani Shapiro

  Beautiful, Jobs, Mean

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

  Tim McIlrath

  Communication, People, Levels

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• The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

  Albert Schweitzer

  World, Way, Lasts

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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