For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“We can almost be sure of two poles of the Absolute—Being and Nonbeing. Being, as I understand it, can be equated with… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish… — Ki Longfellow Copy Share Image
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to apply the laws and states of our Universe to the state before the Big Bang if we do… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we can… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
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The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style,… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
“I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity,… — R.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
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