Famous quotes containing the words universal truth, universal and/or truth:
“Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won’t quite go away.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)