Universe Quotes - Page 31

• With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Boys, Play

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• Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Communication, Inspiration

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.107, Random House

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• The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.

  Amit Ray

  Flower, Mind, Creation

  Amit Ray, Banani Ray (2012). “OM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment”, p.39, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Stars, War

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• The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

  Adam Savage

  Reality, Order, Ideas

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• 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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• The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

  Stephen Hawking

  Mind, Way, Moments

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• All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon it. The rich young ruler went away from Jesus "sorrowful." Everybody does. Not only estrangement from God, but also estrangement from oneself. And the universe! And from life! You are not at home with life, unless you are at home with Life. And Jesus is Life!

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Home, Feelings

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• The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror.

  Tor Nørretranders

  Mirrors, Saws

  Tor Nørretranders (1999). “The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size”, Penguin Books

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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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• To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Law, Doe

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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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• Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Real, Thinking, Essence

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• Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Heart, Shadow

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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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 whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Heaven, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.53, Routledge

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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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• In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

  Dennis Prager

  Independent, Biblical, Men

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

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