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Universe Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
- The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
- It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
- The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was…
- The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
- Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of…
- Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under…
- Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the…
- To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,…
- Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't…
- There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
- Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
- The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the…
- There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy…
- Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
- That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean…
- It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
More Universe Quotes
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing… — Marcus Aurelius
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. — James A. Baldwin
- The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. — Ansel Adams
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,… — Douglas Adams
- In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a… — Douglas Adams
- The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. — Dave Barry
- The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams
- The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. — Catharine Beecher
- If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from. — Robert Benchley