
“There is no such a thing as the universal time that is accepted by all.”
As quoted in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html by William James
Gad! She'd better. - response of Thomas Carlyle
“There is no such a thing as the universal time that is accepted by all.”
Variant: No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.
Source: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 25 (p. 531)
Buffalo Rising interview (2007)
Context: Maybe by doing this work and putting my name on the front line, like a science project, will also afford me the opportunity to embarked into a very special opportunity to show that growing up poor doesn't have to mean being unworthy or forgettable. This is a very important lesson for those who propagate such narrow minded universally accepted inaccuracies about poverty.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 38 (p. 369)