#universe

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conditioned #contingent #divine #divine nature #exist

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#beings #consciousness #cry #face #feel

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#always #between #i #i always #life

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

#everything #measured #music #proportion #universe

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. ↗

— Thales

#more #must #necessity #nothing #over

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#exist #faster #going #helpful #i

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power. ↗

— Joy Page

#choices #creative #equal #interferes #judges

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience. ↗

— John D. Barrow

#designed #no reason #our #reason #should

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#creating #everything #goes #into #lot