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

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.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

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.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

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?

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Being is the great explainer.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

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

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.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

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.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

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.

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 believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

The profoundly ‚atomic‘ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.