It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his "nocturnes" answered: "All of my life." With the sam...e rigor he could have said that all of the centuries that preceded the moment when he painted were necessary. From that correct application of the law of causality it follows that the slightest event presupposes the inconceivable universe and, conversely, that the universe needs even the slightest of events.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we consider the vast distance of the known and visible parts of the world, and the reasons we have to think, that what lies w...ithin our ken is but a small part of the universe, we shall then discover an huge abyss of ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe... or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. (L' univers est dissymetrique.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the scientists hope to do is describe the universe mathematically, predict it, and maybe control it. The philosopher, by contr...ast, seems unbecomingly ambitious. He wants to understand the universe; to get behind phenomena and operation and solve the logically prior riddles of being, knowledge, and value. But the artist, and in particular the novelist, in his essence wishes neither to explain nor to control nor to understand the universe. He wants to make one of his own, and may even aspire to make it more orderly, meaningful, beautiful, and interesting than the one God turned out. What's more, in the opinion of many readers of literature, he sometimes succeeds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The raven is my talisman.... Death is my talisman, Mr. Chapman. The one indestructible force. The one certain thing in an uncertai...n universe. Death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles,... but ours seems to be based on war and games.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God: "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Moses: "If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from ...here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people, unless you go with us?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »