Microcosm Quotes

• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

  Paracelsus

  Stars, Men, World

  Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”

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• In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

  David Bohm

  Science, Men, Clue

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• It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

  Virginia Satir

  Communication, Skills, Issues

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  Ice T

  Country, Fall, United States

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, World, Whole

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.110

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• Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe. Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it. You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe's provision.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Thinking, Cells, Cosmos

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We are each a microcosm; if each of our individual worlds is in balance, the whole planet is in balance.

  Greg Reitman

  Balance, World, Individual

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• As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mind, Atoms, Cosmic

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Sports is human life in microcosm.

  Howard Cosell

  Sports, Homecoming, Human Life

  HOWARD COSELL (1973). “COSELL”

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• Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Particles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Water, Balance, Holiness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

  Carl Jung

  God, Real, Men

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• A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!

  Guy de Maupassant

  Memories, Mirrors, World

  Guy de Maupassant (1989). “The dark side of Guy de Maupassant”

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• Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Men, Gestures, Able

  "Sufism in Britain". Book by Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, A&C Black, p. 64, 2013.

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• The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Training, Democracy, States

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

  John Phillips

  Life, Horse, Frustration

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• Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

  Democritus

  Men, Littles, Universe

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 150), 1948.

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• The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Animal, Growth

  Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus

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• Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

  Rian Johnson

  School, Adults, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Mirrors, Should

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• Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.

  Kate Millett

  Attitude, May, Vacuums

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.23, Columbia University Press

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• In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

  Lou Holtz

  Golf, Player, Way

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• Sports are a microcosm of society.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports

  "The First Of Billie Jean King's 50 Wimbledons". Interview With Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. June 26, 2011.

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