Quotes About Universe

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights: some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have been yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black.

So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star.

such a mixing of gaslight and daylight, that they seemed to have got on the wrong side of the pattern of the universe.

So does a whole world with all its greatnesses and littnlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

She is like the morning," he said. "With that golden hair, those blue eyes, and that fresh bloom on her cheek, she is like the summer morning. The birds here will mistake her for it. We will not call such a lovely young creature as that, who is a joy to all mankind, an orphan. She is the child of the universe.

You are a separate individual among other separate individuals in a universe that is separate from you as well.

Alphabets therefore encourage an atomistic conception of meaning and, by extension, of the universe

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

Ignorant as regards the unity of man with himself, the world is still more ignorant in respect to the two other unities - unity of man with God and the universe.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals.

Timeless literature keeps infinitely expanding, like the universe.

As much as I love my [d!@k] the universe does not dance to its whim. How is this hard for some guys to understand?

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Sometimes the universe throws a handful of glittering opportunity into the air. If it falls upon you, dance! Then get to work.

My thirst and passion from boyhood... has been for poetry — for poetry in its widest and wildest sense — for poetry untrammelled by the laws of sense, rhyme, or rhythm, soaring through the universe, and echoing the music of the spheres! From my youth, nay, from my very cradle, I have yearned for poetry, for beauty, for novelty, for romancement.

A poet is the mocking-bird of the spiritual universe. In him are collected all the individual songs of all individual natures.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

I grant that Freud was one of the most ingenious men who ever lived, but I have no more use for his system than I have for Paley's watch — a metaphor for the universe, wound up in the beginning, then ticking away for billions of years.

You possess the ability to tap a bottomless well of physical and psychic energy... With it, you can harness the magickal power of the universe. Yet most of us unknowingly block the flow of this power, and live out our lives not reaching the potential that we could achieve if we only knew how.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Religion considers the Universe deterministic and science considers it probabilistic — an important distinction.