Quotes about Cosmos

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by God.

All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.

More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder.

Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin and You know what makes this watch run. . . ." The

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Someday death will take us to another star.

When all sounds cease, God's voice is heard under the stars.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.