Universe Quotes - Page 4
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
Gustave Flaubert (2015). “Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more”, p.33, e-artnow
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”
[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.
"September", 1987.
Rudolf Clausius (1867). “The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and to the Physical Properties of Bodies”, p.365
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1941). “Greater South Africa: plans for a better world”
Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III”, p.189, Executive Intelligence Review
Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?
"Life in Hell". Comic book by Matt Groening, 1977 - 2012.
It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.
George Washington, John Frederick Schroeder (1947). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press
There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics
Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.97, Macmillan