Cosmos Quotes - Page 21

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

H. P. Lovecraft

Law, Fundamentals, Emotion

H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.453, OUP Oxford

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A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle and Newton did before, what space and time are, what the cosmos is, what things are made of, and what kind of laws those things obey. Such a theory will bring about a radical shift - a revolution - in our understanding of what nature is. It must also have wide repercussions, and will likely bring about, or contribute to, a shift in our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the rest of the universe.

Lee Smolin

Successful, Law, Space

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No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.

Thomas Huxley

Beautiful, Cat, Thinking

"Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 588), 1997.

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When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

Janet Morris

Writing, Reality, Thinking

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The 7 Principles for Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desires 1. You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos 2. Through the mirror of relationships you discover your nonlocal self 3. Master your inner dialogue 4. Your intent weaves the tapestry of the universe 5. Harness your emotional turbulence 6. Celebrate the dance of the cosmos 7. Access the conspiracy of improbabilities Living synchrodestiny & spontaneous fulfillment of desires.

Deepak Chopra

Life, Emotional, Mirrors

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Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

Robert Plant

Lonely, Communication, Mean

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An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.

Peter London

Artist, Creative, Effort

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Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

Lewis Mumford

Expression, Humanity, Intuition

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Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.

Gil Kalai

Writing, Science, Empathy

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Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.

Rudolf Steiner

Soul, Colour

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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

Alice Walker

Country, Cities, Web Of Life

Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Reality, Other Worlds

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Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

Daniel H. Wilson

Grandmother, Perspective, Google

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Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.

Richard G. Scott

Gratitude, Powerful, Prayer

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When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Meditation, Mind

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Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Criss Jami

Genius, World, Fool

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Real, Men, Thinking

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The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Different, Tissues, Matter

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To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.

Frederick Lenz

Reality, Ideas, Needs

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The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power, existing in singleness. It bestirs itself and assumes a determinate aspect by turning into Thinking (Nous, i.e. Mind), from which comes forth the Thought (Epinoia). As soon as thought is born out of the thinking silence, suddenly one has become two.

Edward F Edinger

Writing, Thinking, Two

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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.

Alice Walker

Prayer, Children, Animal

Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

H. P. Lovecraft

Lying, Hands, Stronger

H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “From Beyond”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

Joe Hyams

Anxiety, Dojo, Opponents

Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.4, Bantam

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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

Nhat Hanh

Gratitude, Health, Clouds

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.90, Parallax Press

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In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

Jaggi Vasudev

Love, Life, Bad Day

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