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Microcosm Quotes

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 150), 1948.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.110

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

"Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

Sports are a microcosm of society.

"The First Of Billie Jean King's 50 Wimbledons". Interview With Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. June 26, 2011.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

"Marc Maron and Julie Klausner: Where Is Comedy Podcasting Going?". Interview with Josh Wolk, www.vulture.com. May 3, 2013.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.435, Open Road Media