Quotes · Skopia

16 quotes

I firmly disbelieve, myself, that our human experience is the highest form of experience extant in the universe. I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawing-rooms and libraries. They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangent to the wider life of things.

William James

Pragmatism · 1906

★ 6.0

Poem

I a universe of atoms an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

1955

★ 5.3

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."

Stephen Crane

A Man Said to the Universe · 1899

★ 5.2

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann

Desiderata · 1933

★ 5.1

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

All that is in harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 3.8

Film · Action (film) · Crime (film) · Action · Crime

Just feel what the wave is doing. Then accept its energy. Get in sync and charge with it. You don't need to see.

Bodhi

Point Break · 1991

★ 3.8

Comic strip

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

Calvin and Hobbes · 1989

★ 3.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Epic (film) · Science fiction · Epic

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

Cooper

Interstellar · 2014

★ 3.7

Magazine · Scientific literature

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

The Exploration of Space · 1929

★ 3.5

Poem

Though I have not been here long, I can look up at the sky at night and tell how things are likely to go for the next hundred million years: the universe will probably not find a way to vanish nor I in all that time reappear.

A.R. Ammons

Rapids · 1981

★ 3.4

Philosophical literature

The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one.

Zhuang Zhou

221 BC

★ 2.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Walk not on the earth exultantly; certainly thou wilt never tear the earth open, nor attain the mountains in height.

Muhammad

The Quran, The Koran, 17:37 · 632

★ 2.2

Novel · Western literature

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West · 1985

★ 1.9

Film · Sports (film) · Historical drama (film) · Sports · Historical drama

Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way and where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Eric Liddell

Chariots of Fire · 1981

★ 1.9

Essay

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

1922

★ 1.8

Novel

Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.

Kate Chopin

The Awakening · 1899

★ 1.0

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