Quotes About Cosmos

In communities in which spiritual life was permeated -as it invariably was- with supernatural beliefs, sacred cults and rituals, and the practice of magic, this was a potent force. All known hunter-gatherer societies -as with any other human society- exhibit the universal human quest for ordering and manipulating the cosmos.

God made us the butt of the joke universe.

It is, after all, not man but the universe that is subtle.

On the Nature of Things

Stoics believed that Logos—reason—was a divine element that infused all of existence

That's all I can tell you. once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

One could say: The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.

F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate those of others – and … all creatures of a dynamic universe.

I looked at her and a voice inside me said, we only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.

It's time to abandon the Greek idea that hubris is bad and face a simple fact — hubris is what the cosmos seems to want from us.

Love is the face and body of the Universe.

The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.

Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

We live by the sun, we feel by the moon, we love by the stars. We live in all things, all things live in us.

Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here after you.

If you could pick one word in the English language to describe the universe, what would it be? Why?" Here's my response: Unfair.

if there were once more stars visible to us than there are today, what once-obvious facts are we missing because humans arrived nearly fourteen billion years after the party started?