No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
In an orderly universe, there is simply no way in which one can get something for nothing.
—Eric Butterworth (1916–2003) American Spirituality Writer
The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it’s legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything hat exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
—Carlos Castaneda (1925–98) Peruvian-born American Anthropologist, Author
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Dissident Novelist
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
—Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu Monk, Mystic
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
—Carl Sagan (1934–96) American Astronomer
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened.
—Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
—Scott Adams (b.1957) American Cartoonist
The universe is one of God’s thoughts.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
—David Hume (1711–76) Scottish Philosopher, Historian
I don’t pretend to understand the Universe—it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) American Poet, Writer
The field of intent grows my fingernails, it beats my heart, it digest my food, it writes my books, and it does this for everyone and everything in the universe.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
—William S. Burroughs (1914–97) American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Painter
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
—Louis Pasteur (1822–95) French Biologist
When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.
—Eugene Ionesco (1909–94) Romanian-born French Dramatist
Power is what they want, not candy—power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe – for though the world is so old – and so many books have been written – each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience – each field of thought wholly unexplored – the whole world is an America – a New World.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) English Occultist, Mystic, Magician
Everything is perfect in the universe—even your desire to improve it.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
—Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
—Deepak Chopra (b.1946) Indian-born American Physician, Public Speaker, Writer
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