universe quotes

• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. (William Blake) [imagination/universe/shadow]
• Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe. (Frank Zappa) [stupidity/universe]
• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. (George Santayana) [universe/men/human]
• The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. (Laurence Olivier) [universe]
• There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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 which states that this has already happened. (Douglas Adams) [universe/willpower/more]
• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. (Douglas Adams) [universe/people]
• It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality. (Jean Baudrillard) [universe/order/acceleration/logic]
• You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. (Arnold Bennett) [morning/universe/life/take]
• Humor is just another defense against the universe. (Mel Brooks) [defense/universe]
• No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. (Thomas Carlyle) [universe/omnipotence/men/shadow]
• The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it. (Thomas Carlyle) [thing/time/universe/thing]
• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. (Thomas Carlyle) [find/universe]
• I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. (Aleister Crowley) [universe]
• Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth. (Albert Einstein) [willpower/change/universe/goodwill]
• God does not play dice with the universe. (Albert Einstein) [god/universe]
• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. (Albert Einstein) [religion/power/universe/god]
• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe. (George Eliot) [human/light/universe]
• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [decision/universe]
• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [water/system/universe/angel]
• There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [chance//universe/system]
• We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [universe/property]
• There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. (Henry Fielding) [universe/more/more]
• The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [evil/decision/universe]
• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [find/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) [universe/beauty]
• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. (Vaclav Havel) [right/universe/right/life]
• 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) [universe/strange/moment/universe]
• 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) [universe/universe/universe/intellect]
• Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. (Arthur Koestler) [relations/universe/europe/wisdom]
• The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. (Charles Lamb) [universe/]
• 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) [group/society/universe]

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