universal truths
Facts without exceptions
Universal truths are statements or principles held to be valid across all times, places, and cultures—truths that don't depend on individual perspective or circumstance.
Philosophy and religion claim such truths: All humans are mortal; Suffering is part of life.
The phrase often appears in discussions of ethics, mathematics, or human nature.
Whether genuine universal truths exist, or whether all truth is contextual, remains debated.
- human conditionUniversal aspects of existence
- common humanityShared nature of people
- shared experienceEvent undergone by multiple people
- mortalityState of eventual death
- life and deathMatters of survival
circle of life · reason · ethics · moral compass · sacrifice · enlightenment · emotional resonance · consciousness · golden rule · epistemology · hero's journey · allegory · deeper meaning · dharma · natural laws · metaphysics · justice · archetypes
- truthstruths, facts, fact, reality, verities
- wisdomwisdom, sagacity, sapience, discernment, insight
- literary themesheroism, hero's journey, ennui, social realism, morals
- simple presentfacts, general truths, routines, states, negation
- sayingssayings, saying, proverb, proverbs, adage
- wisdom sayingsproverbs, sayings, adages, maxims, aphorisms
universal truthslocal customs
Place-specific social norms
regional traditions · tribal knowledge · exceptions · anomalies · edge cases
universal truthsfalsehoods
Deliberate untruths
superstitions · value judgments · tastes · biases · prejudices