Cosmos quotes
180 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach."
"Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature."
"The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension."
"No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos."
"To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it."
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"The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact."
"We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos."
"Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine"
"The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you."
"... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back."
"The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire."
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
"The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos."
"The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness."
"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."
"Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born."
"If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth."
"Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand"
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff"
"When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos."
"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation."
"The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths."
"Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos."
"What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen."
"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions."
