Quotes About Cosmos

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

It's a strange courage you give me, ancient star.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

The stars refuse to come closer the way they have other nights. He squints harder. They just shimmer and float farther away.

Ich erblickte das Alphabet der Sterne. Ein Firmament voller funkelnder Zeichen, eine unlesbare, aber wundervolle Schrift aus Licht, so alt wie das Universum.

Von den Sternen kommen wir, zu den Sternen gehen wir. Das Leben ist nur eine Reise in die Fremde.

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

The Universe was not created to make humans comfortable.

We'll never have a true picture of reality; it just doesn't exist. But I'm real, and you're real, and those fiery balls of gas up there are real, and right now that's all I need to know.

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.

We are all connected at a deep, chemical level. We are all connected to the universe, and the universe is inside us.

The universe resonates to certain musical vibrations. All the stars and planets revolve in harmony with it.

Last night I learned that for everyone alive on earth today, there are thirty ghosts lined up behind them. Not literally lined up, of course, but that's how many dead people there are compared to living people. In all, around a hundred billion people have walked on this planet, which, interestingly enough, is the same number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

In my opinion, we're here because we won the evolutionary lottery. We're here because as far as we know this is the only place we can be. "So, basically what your sayings is", Lizzy says ... "We're here because we're here?" "Precisely!" Dr. Grady says.

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. —Lawrence M. Krauss, physicist

We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

Thought is like the universe, few see the stars.

There's a reason for everything, if it weren't for the stars, there would be no universe.

I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.

Out of the chaos and darkness of Nun rose Ammon-Ra, He-Who-Creates-Himself. I watched Ammon-Ra stroke his generative member, masturbating and spurting out his seminal seed in mighty waves that left the silver smear that we know as the Milky Way across the dark void. From this seed were generated Geb and Nut, the earth and the heaven.

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.

Metaphysics: One of the main topics of philosophy and a bit of a catchall for everything that isn't logic, epistemology, or ethics. Metaphysics looks at the Big Picture: What is "being"? What is the cosmos and what is it made of? Also, incidentally, what is the meaning of life?