“Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.” WorldMindHumansCultureNextLanguageUnderstandingAbilityTeachCreativeGenerationsTeachingEssentialsElementsUniversalMathematicsMathPrimariesManifestationHuman MindConstructionOrgansNext GenerationTheoreticalTransmitCreative Power Book:Gesammelte Abhandlungen Source: Gesammelte Abhandlungen
“The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to perfect our union at home while standing as a beacon of hope to the world. Today, that principle is embodied in agreements Americans helped forge - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and treaties against torture and genocide - and it unites us with people from every country and culture.” PeopleWorldHumansIdeasCountryStatesHomeTodayCulturePerfectUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesRightsStandingUniversalUnionsHuman RightsTortureAgreementGenocideConventionsDeclarationWorld TodayTreatiesBeaconsInalienable RightsGenevaGeneva ConventionDeclaration Of Human Rights Author:Barack Obama
“The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.” IfsMenGivingHumansLongIdeasEarthLyingCultureReligiousHuman BeingsLove IsPowerfulImpossibleDependsDevelopmentMoralityReflectionEthicsWeakUniversalRemainsFulfillmentSignificanceCatholicismFoundersExaltedHuman DevelopmentMein KampfGreatest Man Author:Adolf Hitler
“We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own.” PeopleFeelsCountryHelpingCultureIndividualTermCommunityChallengesPrinciplesDesignUniversalSensitiveTranslateProgrammes Author:Thoraya Obaid
“The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.” PeopleCountryHelpingActionValuesTurnsCultureChallengesPrinciplesUniqueDeterminationUniversalInfiniteAgendasWillingnessConcreteSensitivity Author:Thoraya Obaid
“There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.” CountryCultureCommunityViolenceUniversalAcceptableDomestic ViolenceViolence Against WomenTolerableUniversal TruthStop Violence Against Women Author:Ban Ki-moon
“For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.” MenHumansHumanityCultureLiteratureLanguageRealizingCommonQualityClassBloodHuman NatureUniversalHumanismLimitationAppealsSoilCommon HumanityCommon LanguageCommon Culture Author:Christopher Dawson
“It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole” HumansWholeCultureRaceChristianityParticularUniversalWestBoundsMissionsEastHuman Race Author:Christopher Dawson