“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
“Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.” MenGivingTogetherFatherNamesCommonUniversalStrangerBreadBrotherhood Author:Quintilian
“Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is universal law and each individual must manifest this law. Man will forever war with man until he learns to give his all with the full expectation of equal receiving, and never taking that which is not given as an earned reward for his giving.” KnowsMenGivingWarLawPurposeIndividualGivenHalfPrinciplesForeverCreationBalanceEqualExpectationsOppositesUniversalRewardsCyclesManifestReceivingUniversal Laws Book:The Secret of Light Source: The Secret of Light
“Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.” IfsMenDoeLawPoliticalNamesForceSocialNaturalFictionSituationEconomicDevelopmentUniversalRelationSlaveryDemocraticDoctrineHypocrisyDeceitAnarchyFalsehoodInherentSuffrageUniversal Suffrage Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.” MenHumansCountryStatesAbleMotherPurposeRealizingCitiesMen And WomenUniversalIndiaTownsHarmonyUnitySouthDawnSettlingProgressiveMeant To BeArchitectCreedsNationalityRogerSettling In Author:Mirra Alfassa
“For in that universal call, Few bankers will to heaven be mounters; They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall! Conceal and cover us, ye counters! When other hands the scales shall hold, And they, in men's and angels' sight Produced with all their bills and gold, 'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'” MenHandsLightFallFoundHeavenCryBalanceAngelGoldUniversalSightBillsScalesShopsBankers Book:Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics Source: Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics
“I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.” MenWantWritingUniverseLove IsMen And WomenUniversalSensualitySensualMechanismErotic Author:Toru Takemitsu