We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.