#universal

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#creative #dead #effort #everything #living

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#being #comprises #everything #existing #exists

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everyone #lived #observe #one time #say

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#any #applies #beings #characteristic #declaration

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all. ↗

— Aime Cesaire

#deepening #different #each #i #idea

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#any #fit #interest #just #know

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. ↗

— George Rivorie

#destiny #earth #equality #equality-of-cultures #foundation

It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#going-beyond #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #limitless #self-freedom