#universe

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#religion #universe #religion

My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe. ↗

— John Rowland

#center #cities #governor #i #legacy

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #god #human #i #like

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

#denies #fashioned #gods #human #image

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#feel #make #safe #security #static

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#life is a #process #universe

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#oneness #physics #quantum #quantum physics #reveals

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#honored #i #inferno #just #me

No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#bush #despair #even #george #george bush

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots