Quotes of Cosmic - somelinesforyou

“ A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ”

- Julian Huxley

“ The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me. ”

- Lea DeLaria

“ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. ”

- Anais Nin

“ In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories. ”

- Nicolai A. Berdyaev

“ For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. ”

- William James

“ God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“ Everybody should be able to make some music…That's the cosmic dance! ”

- Maude

“ There is today — in a time when old beliefs are withering — a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ In order to develop love — universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it — one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it. ”

- Chögyam Trungpa

“ As a student of Carl Sagan's, a Planetary Society Board Member, I came of age during the Voyager missions. I was in the lecture on during the days, when Professor Sagan asked the class which songs we thought were worthy of being sent out of our Solar System, messages in bottles to be cast into the Cosmic Ocean. ”

- Bill Nye

“ My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity. ”

- Sun Myung Moon

“ I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out. ”

- Bill Lee

“ Our inner growth should now be able to expand beyond the superiority complex of our own civilization, now that we know that the ancient Maya had attained a level of cosmic understanding that modern science has not grasped. ”

- John Jenkins

“ Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate. ”

- Ray Harryhausen

“ However, only a cursory investigation of the present position of machine civilizations needed to uncover the fact that it is indeed in a precarious position. A cosmic gambler, looking at us from afar, would, in all likelihood give substantial odds in favor of the probability that it will soon disappear, never again to come into existence. ”

- Harrison Brown

“ What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? ”

- John Updike

“ Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ”

- Martha Gellhorn

“ The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it… ”

- Antonin Artaud
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