We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.
-Laurence Binyon
Quotations
Universe
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe. “The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.”
-Stephen Crane "Stephen Crane"
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
-C. S. Lewis "C. S. Lewis"
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humour.
-Candace Bushnell
"Sex and the City"
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
-Joseph Campbell
Vacuity, tranquillity, mellowness, quietness and taking no action characterise things of the universe at peace and represent the ultimate Tao and virtue. Therefore abide in them.
-Zhuangzi "Zhuangzi, Daoism"
If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the whole universe.
-Anonymous "Druidic Axiom"
Science tells theology about the structure and history of the universe and its evolutionary nature. Religious insight can set the laws of nature in a more profound context of understanding, so that their deep order, rational beauty and anthropic fine-tuning become intelligible.
-Reverend John Polkinghorne "Reverend John Polkinghorne"
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
-Paulo Coelho
The universe is wider than our views of it.
-Henry David Thoreau
