Universal Quotes - page 2

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it. (Blaise Pascal)
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. View quote
George Eliot
I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. View quote
Richard Wagner
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. View quote
Lionel Trilling
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. View quote
Chrysippus
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree. (Albert Mackey)
Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience. View quote
Norman Angell
Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local. View quote
Murray Rothbard
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. View quote
Martin Amis
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. View quote
Abraham Cowley
Women are much more like each other than men they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love these are their universal characteristics. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. (Francis Bacon)
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. View quote
Anatole France
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.[citation needed]. View quote
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. View quote
Carroll Quigley