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Quotes About Universe

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
~ Immanuel Kant
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
~ Jean Genet
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
~ Dan Brown
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.
~ Adolf Hitler
Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.
~ John Henrik Clarke
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
~ John Woolman
What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.
~ Leigh Bardugo
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
~ Robert Payne
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
~ Alain de Botton
Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
~ Albert Camus
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
~ Carl Jung
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
~ Terence McKenna
Si Dios no juega a los dados con el Universo, como dice Einstein, ¿por qué habría de dejar a sus más milagrosos corpúsculos abandonados a un inmisericorde azar?
~ Teresa Calderón
Ojalá encuentres el agujero negro que te tiene reservado el Universo. Y que seas bien infeliz en él, retorciéndote en la materia condensada, aplastado como una cucaracha por el Big Crush.
~ Teresa Calderón
The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.
~ Terrance Dicks
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
~ Terry Pratchett
There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.
~ Tess Gerritsen
This is what had always happened to women when they had too much time to think: they made themselves conduits to all the passions in the universe, they dreamed open all the possibilities that sane hard-working people kept shut away.
~ Tessa Hadley
It is not possible to become a warrior without stopping the world. In order to do so you must believe that it is possible, and that you too are a magical being of the universe capable of doing so.
~ Théun Mares