Universal Scope Quotes

If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart

I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.