#universal

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

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Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#better #convinced #i #i am #i can

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

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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. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

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