Universe Quotes - Page 36

• God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Belief, Crap

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• For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Fate, Self

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• Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Punishment, Afterlife, Expectations

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• I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.

  Rene Magritte

  Mean, Thinking, Responsible

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• We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

  Rachel Carson

  Attitude, War, Men

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.

  George Zebrowski

  Fabric, Facts, Starting

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• These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Jesus, Believe, Gun

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• If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!

  Mary Morrissey

  Soul, Looks, Problem

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• A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Sunshine, Clouds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.129, Harmony

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• The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Helping, Strange

  "Human gullibility beyond belief, - the "paranormal" in the media". The Sunday Times, August 25, 1996.

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• The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.

  Terry Pratchett

  Morning, People, Humanity

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.140, Random House

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• What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

  Ron Chernow

  Numbers, People, Interesting

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• All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

  Dennis Prager

  Reading, Biblical, Men

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.39, Creators Publishing

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• I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Needs, Relevant, Wells

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• I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

  Joyce Giraud

  Girl, Queens, Ambition

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• There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

  Elaine Pagels

  Light, Shining, Darkness

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas”, p.38, Vintage

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• The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

  Alan Cohen

  Adventure, Journey, Yield

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• Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Makeup, Age, Faces

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• The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

  Seth Shostak

  Stars, Law, Firsts

  "Who or What Built the Universe?" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2010.

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• Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Speed, Ready

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• If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Hands, Bangs

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• The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.

  Ali Vincent

  Happiness And Success, Enough

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• One of the truths I most deeply believe is that everything in life - everything - is energy. Within every one of us is the energy that makes the sun rise every day and keeps the planets aligned. It's there, already inside of you, waiting for you to know it. And when you tap in with that connection, that source, that miraculous energy, what I know for sure is that the universe rises up to meet you in unimaginable ways and help you create the life that you want.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Waiting, Energy

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• The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Struggle, Fighting

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Self, Wind

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.235, Penguin UK

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