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“The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.”

Knows Wells Universe Assuming Damn

Author:John C. Lilly

“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”

Heart Feelings Form Universe Religious Mankind Assuming

Author:Madame de Stael

“If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"”

Ifs Thinking Universe Assuming Elsewhere

Author:Paul Davies

“Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?”

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.”

Made Done Certain Universe Deserve Grateful Assuming Strikes Believer Punishment Made It Sunset Misfortunes Recognizing Realist True Believer

Author:Jack McDevitt

“we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.”

Men Soul Law Universe Justice Break Hell Our Lives Trouble Divine Eternal Harmony Assuming Certainty Squares Jars Discord Rebound

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.”

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.”

Long Universe Clear Assuming Center Of The Universe

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island