Quotes About Cosmos

Plato considered the golden section proportion the most binding of all mathematical relations, making it the key to the physics of the cosmos.

In that version of the story, Atlas is less literal holder of the world than beholder of it; he alone among mortals can contemplate the divine and take measure of the cosmos.

Just tell me why; why the fucking why? To which the universe would hollowly respond, My ways cannot be known, oh man. Which is to say, My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me.

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

Random, and yet rooted in the moment in which he lived, in which his life was bound up with all other lives and particles in the universe.

Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not percieve.

every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh.

Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.

They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life;

It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive.

you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe.

10. Apollonius of Tyana, writing as Hermes Trismegistos, said, That which is above is that which is below. By this he meant to tell us that our universe is a hologram, but he lacked the term.

When something begins to devour the world, a serious matter is taking place. If the devouring entity is evil or insane, the situation is not merely serious; it is grim. But Fat viewed the process the other way around. He viewed it exactly as Plato had viewed it in his own cosmology: the rational mind (noös) persuades the irrational (chance, blind determinism, ananke), into cosmos.

Motion that is circular is the deadest form of the universe." Another voice said, "Time." He knew the answer to that. Time is round.

There is a correspondence between the microcosm and the macrocosm! The stars are alive, child! Did you know that? Everything out there is alive, and there are grand purpose abroad! The universe is full of intentions , you know. Everything happens for a purpose.

Every atom of me, and every atom of you.

The profusion of the stars told him unambiguously that he was doomed to die

Kassandra put her arm around her. "One day we will have no bones," the girl said happily, "and our dust will swirl among the stars.

Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all the racist, sexist, tasteless and denigrating remarks made by coaches inaudible to the students about whom they bellowed them.

Hearing this, the woman skooched her legs around each other, jingled her bells, leaned toward Everett till their shoulders touched, and laughed and squirmed the sorts of laughs and squirms that Jehovah may have witnessed on the day He created misogyny. The Cosmos kept its balance, though, because Everett was meanwhile leering the sort of testicular leer that Kali may well have had in mind when She inspired Man to create asbestos, carcinogenic beer, and the trenches in World War I.

People have moral standing and inanimate objects don't—people can be harmed, but inanimate objects can only be damaged. But where do all the other life-forms stand? Oddly enough, our judgments about this depend in large measure on where we position them on the great chain of being. This ancient, discredited, prescientific model of the cosmos still unconsciously serves as a guideline for our moral judgments.

It hardly seems fair we'd get the universe all to ourselves...

had to know if this zodiac cycle was still at work today. It didn't take long to discover that these cycle connections between

Salter's book Life with a Cosmos Clearance