Quotes for: universe

Quotes for: universe

Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
Alan Watts

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

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The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
Voltaire - Les cabales

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything
Gérard de Nerval

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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.
Claude Monet

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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.

Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.
Novalis - Fragments

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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts

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It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.
Stephen Hawking

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One of the basic rules of the Universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
Plato - Phaedrus

A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.
Simone Weil

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself.
Alan Watts

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts

He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
Alan Watts

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No contingency anywhere in the universe; no indifference; no liberty. While we act, we are, at the same time, acted upon.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Through Albert Einstein's work the horizon of mankind has been immeasurably widened, at the same time as our world picture has attained a unity and harmony never dreamed of before.
Niels Bohr

Many scientists did not like the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation.
Stephen Hawking

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

There is a universal law that commands that we shall be born and we shall die.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts

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