Quotes · Skopia

8 quotes

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Topic·Nature of the universe✕clear

Personal journal

But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.

1904

★ 6.2

Religious literature

This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

The Sensible Man's View of Religion · 1932

★ 4.3

Interview · Magazine

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.

Stanley Kubrick

1968

★ 3.6

Film · Fantasy (film) · Drama (film) · Fantasy · Drama

The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted.

Beasts of the Southern Wild · 2012

★ 3.6

Film · Documentary (film)

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.

Grizzly Man · 2005

★ 3.5

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.

1927

★ 3.4

Personal journal

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

1869

★ 1.9

I find no hint throughout the Universe Of good or ill, of blessing or of curse; I find alone Necessity Supreme.

James Thomson (B.V.)

1874

★ 1.9