Universal
Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.
Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.
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Universal Quotations
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Universal Translations
universal in Dutch is algemeen, universeel
universal in French is universel
universal in Spanish is universalmente
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