#universe

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#beings #blind #conduct #every #everything

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. ↗

— Jean Genet

#air #breathe #criminals #forbidden #hopelessly

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#else #found #gift #i #known

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#around #been #billions #bubbles #bursts

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#among #any #group #individual #just

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#aware #big #fiction #how #leaving

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#brought #everything #exists #great #kindergarten

Man is a universe within himself. ↗

— Bob Marley

#man #universe #within

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#master #more #puppet #universe #wonderful