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Quotes about Universe


To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be—I hope it is—redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

William Golding

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

Roger Caras

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.

Stephen Vincent Benét

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Christopher Morley

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius)

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Wayne Dyer

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.

Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

Oliver Goldsmith

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Janos Bolyai

Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.

Mrs. Aphra Johnson Behn

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Norman Fitzroy Maclean

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Sir Thomas Browne

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Thomas Carlyle

Everything is a gift of the universe— even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Ken Keyes Jr

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe

Ray Bradbury

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Norman Cousins

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Louisa May Pilgrims

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