#universe

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#basic #basic understanding #contribution #culture #human

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. ↗

— Georg Hermes

#soul #souls #universe

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#built #certainty #distrust #doubt #enters

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#humanism #justice #universe #dreams

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe. ↗

— John Rachel

#cerebral #computers #gymnastics #intelligence #orangutan

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #inspirational #intent #motivational #success

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another- ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#dreams

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. ↗

— Dan Millman

#cells #ever #everything #imprinted #know

Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days--since each hypothesis, while equally paradoxical, neatly avoided the paradoxes of the other--with, of course, a day off each year for sheer solipsist debauchery. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#hypotheses #indecision #paradoxes #solipsism #the-universe

The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#compassion #death #god #grief #heart