cosmic paradox Quotes

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.