Cosmos famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
-- Alexander Calder -
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
-- Arthur Peacocke -
Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.
-- Baker Brownell -
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
-- Benjamin Lee Whorf -
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
-- Brian Cox -
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
-- Brian Greene -
Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
-- Carl Jung -
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature
-- Carl Sagan -
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff
-- Carl Sagan -
We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
-- Carl Sagan -
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
-- Carl Sagan -
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
-- Carl Sagan -
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
-- Carl Sagan -
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
-- Carl Sagan -
In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
-- Clive James -
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.
-- Damien Broderick -
If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck -
The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
-- David Eagleman -
Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar
-- Dean Cavanagh -
Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.
-- Deepak Chopra -
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.
-- Donna J. Haraway -
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.
-- Ernst Haeckel -
The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
-- Franz Liszt -
When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.
-- Fritjof Capra -
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?
-- George Greenstein -
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.
-- Henry Wood -
A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
-- Howard Fineman -
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
-- James A. Garfield -
By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God
-- James Hillman -
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
-- Jean Houston -
A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.
-- Joe Hyams -
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin -
Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
-- John Frusciante -
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation....
-- Joseph Campbell -
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
-- Julian Baggini -
The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory
-- Kallistos Ware -
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.
-- Kenzaburo Oe -
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson -
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
-- Le Corbusier -
Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.
-- Leonard Nimoy -
Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
-- Lisa Randall -
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
-- Marina Warner -
To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.
-- Masaru Emoto -
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)
-- Michael Shermer -
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. Breathe in and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breathe out and bring the cosmos back inside. Next, breathe up all fecundity and vibrancy of the earth. Finally, blend the breath of heaven and the breath of earth with your own, becoming the Breath of Life itself.
-- Morihei Ueshiba -
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.
-- Murray Leinster -
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
-- Olaf Stapledon -
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
-- Olaf Stapledon -
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.
-- Owen Gingerich -
The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.
-- Peter Kropotkin -
Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.
-- Philip Zimbardo -
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
-- Poul Anderson -
Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
-- Poul Anderson -
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.
-- R. J. Anderson -
Astrology is the Via Regia to the enchanted cosmos.
-- Richard Tarnas -
We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.
-- Richard Wilhelm -
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.
-- Russell Kirk -
Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach -
I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons...
-- Sidney Poitier -
We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
-- Sun Ra -
I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
-- Terry Goodkind -
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.
-- Tom Kenyon -
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?
-- Umberto Eco -
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.
-- Victor J. Stenger -
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.
-- Walker Percy -
ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.
-- Walter Russell -
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
-- Wislawa Szymborska -
I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.
-- Frankie Cosmos -
I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness
-- James Lovegrove -
You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.
-- Jon Spaihts -
We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe. Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it. You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe's provision.
-- Agapi Stassinopoulos -
We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
-- Matthew Fox
