#universal

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#come #easily #himself #imagine #man

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#eternal #heroes #i #i believe #i believe that

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger. ↗

— Bart Starr

#better #better job #called #could #danger

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#arisen #could #dramatists #english #essence

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#always #between #i #i always #life

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#great #history #must #philosophy #the history of

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner? ↗

— k.d. lang

#compassion-for-animals #healthy-diet #love-of-god #morality #respect

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

#clue #i #idea #insisted #only

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ↗