Universality Quotes - Page 2

• Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.

  Hu Shih

  Past, Law, Doe

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• Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

  Stephen Harper

  Policy, Areas, Has Beens

  Stephen Harper's Speech to the National Citizens Coalition's Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, 1994.

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• It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

  Vaclav Havel

  Rights, People, Leader

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• We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.

  Kenzo Tange

  Identity, Mobility, World

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• The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.

  Pope John Paul II

  Believe, Mean, Church

  Pope John Paul II (1991). “Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate”

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• Sin embargo, ¿es posible explicar, en términos del movimiento de los átomos, cómo el hombre puede inventar un motor eléctrico o diseñar y construir una gran catedral? Si tales logros representan algo más que los requisitos de la ley física, significa que la ciencia debe investigar los factores de control adicionales, cualesquiera que sean, para poder comprender adecuadamente el mundo de la naturaleza.

  Arthur Compton

  Media, Ciencia, Hombres

  "El sentido humano de la ciencia".

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• The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Ethics, Reverence

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.237, Henry Holt and Company

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• [The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality.

  Karl Popper

  Taken, Science, Law

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• The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

  Sean O Faolain

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

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• The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Diversity, Unity, Islam

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• The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Civilization, White

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• I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Creer, Escribir, Pensar

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.6, Vintage

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• La experiencia llana y el sentido común nos informan de que ninguna Persona abstracta puede habernos hecho como somos sin desear también borrarnos y empezar de nuevo (Gn. 8:21; Sof. 1:2). Por lo tanto, la existencia de una naturaleza cruel y arbitraria, junto con la universalidad del pecado humano, nos impide comenzar la empresa teológica con cualquier concepto de Dios que sea distinto de la revelación. Todas las teologías de un principio armónico cósmico naufragan en las verdades de la tragedia, la catástrofe y la injusticia.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Sentido Común, Volver a Empezar, Juntos

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• The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Tools, Language, Well Known

  "La notación como herramienta de pensamiento". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), agosto de 1980.

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• If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

  Vanna Bonta

  School, Thinking, Order

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 75), August 1, 2006.

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• La única perspectiva "realista" es fundamentar una nueva
  universalidad política optando por lo imposible,
  asumiendo plenamente el lugar de la excepción, sin
  tabúes, sin normas a priori ("derechos humanos", "democracia"),
  cuyo respeto nos impediría "resignificar
  el terror, el ejercicio despiadado del poder, el espíritu de
  sacrificio ... si esta opción radical es denunciada por algunos
  liberales de corazón sangrante como Linksfaschismus, ¡que así sea!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Corazón, Ejercicio, Sacrificio

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• No such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world - a testimony to its universality.

  Michael Shermer

  Lying, Foundation, World

  Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

  El Greco

  Painting, Speculation

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• La gran belleza de la verdadera religión es que sea universal, y apartarse en cualquier caso de la universalidad es una corrupción de la religión misma.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Religión, Salida, Corrupción

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• I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I saw in the story was some Irishmen meeting in a room and talking politics. What had that to do with America, especially with my people? It was not until years later that I saw what he meant ... I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes, to how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Hero, Talking, Years

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• Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator.

  Horace Mann

  School, Civilization, Two

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• That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Ideas, Clue

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• Lo que quiero es tocar una fibra resonante de universalidad en otras personas, y la mejor forma de hacerlo es mediante la ficción.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Gente, Ficción, Hecho

  "La escritora Joyce Carol Oates sobre el 'mundo de lo absurdo' de la viudez". Entrevista con Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. 3 de febrero de 2011.

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• To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--

  John Gardner

  Suicide, Art, Pain

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• However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Men, Individuality

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