Universe Quotes - Page 16

• Christianity is the gayest religion, you know. Its core commandment to men is to form a deep lifelong partnership with ANOTHER MAN. It demands real man-on-man, man-on-Jesus love action, no holds barred. It's the most homophilic religion in the universe.

  Joe

  Jesus, Real, Men

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• A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

  Laozi

  Writing, Athlete, Games

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• Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Minimum

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Men, Blessing

  "Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

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• A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does a material object-as was evident. From this consideration of a point and a material object elevate yourself unto a likeness of True Being and of the universe; and by means of [this] quite clear symbolism [of a point] make a conjecture about what has been said.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Mean, Symbolism, Simplicity

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• The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

  George Herbert Palmer

  Beautiful, Good Person, Persons

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• But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Men, Self, Personality

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• The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.

  Bernard Berenson

  Lying, Men, Self

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”

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• My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Doors

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.328, Penguin UK

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Confusing

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• The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We learn to live in the universe as a part of it; we cannot seperate ourselves from it - our every act connects us with it - our every act affects the whole. Standing under the canopy of stars and remembering their presence you could scarcely do a petty deed, or think a wicked thought.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Thinking, Wicked

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• Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

  Terry Pratchett

  Sound, Would Be, Paper

  "Interesting Times (Discworld, Book 17)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 186), 1994.

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• 'Jessica Jones' is its own animal, I think each one of these series is its own animal. There is some connective tissue, in terms of referencing the Marvel Universe, but it glances off of the other stories.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Animal, Thinking, Stories

  Source: deadline.com

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• I always feel that there are two powers in the universe. There is good and there is evil and it depends what side you listen to and which path you decide to follow.

  William Tucci

  Two, Evil, Path

  "Comic book master Billy Tucci draws on personal faith to create a Christmas masterpiece". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Who am I? It matters not that you know who I am; it is of little importance. This clay garment is one of a penniless pilgrim journeying in the name of peace. It is what you cannot see that is so very important. I am one who is propelled by the power of faith; I bathe in the light of eternal wisdom; I am sustained by the unending energy of the universe; this is who I really am.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Who I Am, Names

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.126, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.

  David Finckel

  Ideas, Years, People

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• Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humans, Affected

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reason, Divine, Whole

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• Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Men, Discovery

  Letter to Élie Diodati (p. 279), January 2, 1638.

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• The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

  C. S. Lewis

  Hero, Men, Soul

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Mean, Support

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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