#verse

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#contact #never #off #only #quarters

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#dignity #held #importance #increase #inverse

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

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

#arise #between #born #breathe #cosmos

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. ↗

— Dean Inge

#beginning #clock #could #date #down

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#anything #assistance #every #except #fact

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. ↗

— David Ives

#i #i think #new #new york #new york times

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#does #exclusive #finite #island #itself