Across the universe Quote by Carl Sagan

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.…

— Carl Sagan

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely…

— Carl Sagan

“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and…

— Carl Sagan

“The “pale blue dot” image and Carl’s prose meditation on it have been beloved the world over ever since. It exemplifies just the kind…

— Ann Druyan

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in…

— Arthur Eddington

“But the final price of freedom is the willingness to face that most frightening of all beings, one’s own self. Starlight vision, the “other…

— Starhawk

“A human being,’ said Einstein, ‘is part of the whole, which we call the Universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences…

— Simon Parke

Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty…

— Theodore Dreiser

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

— Ramana Maharshi

“We alone control our final form through our conscious actions. We become the product of the movement of our mind and our physical actions.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Connection with the world is built in to every aspect of our being. […] We’re joined to the cosmos and the everyday world as…

— Thomas W. Clark

“Where people see themselves in a harsh yellow light of obectivity....about 20 percent of all people live in that spot and psychologists call the…

— David McRaney