Quotes on Universe

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Go first class all the way and the universe will respond by giving you the best.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.