"The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose."
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"Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum."
"What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?"
"Most of what we see in the universe is dust."
"The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming."
"He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not."
"There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works."
"Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body. And how will we perceive this body? And how operate on it?"
"The Universe is on the side of Justice"
"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."
"One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand."