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
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
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
—David Hume (1711–76) Scottish Philosopher, Historian
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
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
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
In an orderly universe, there is simply no way in which one can get something for nothing.
—Eric Butterworth (1916–2003) American Spirituality Writer
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
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
—Carl Sagan (1934–96) American Astronomer
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American Novelist, Essayist
Minds are like parachutes—they only function when open.
—Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar (1864–1930) Scottish Whisky Distiller
Nothing is accidental in the universe—this is one of my Laws of Physics—except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
—Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) American Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Literary Critic
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 strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
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
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) American Poet, Writer
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
—Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) American New Thought Writer, Teacher
Everything is perfect in the universe—even your desire to improve it.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
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
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
—Claude Levi-Strauss (1908–2009) French Social Anthropologist, Philosopher
The universe is wider than our views of it.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
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
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
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
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
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
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes—but is that all?
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Dissident Novelist
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