The Key to Life: In 365 Quotes

1. Do I dare disturb the universe?

T. S. Eliot

2. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Frank Herbert

3. If you could be president of the universe, would you accept? We're all cursed to be president of our universe in our own right; in some sense, I already have. But that doesn't mean just me and no one else.

Jordan Peterson

4. If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

Joe Rogan

5. In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe. We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.

Lawrence Krauss

6. In space there are 1 atom per square centemeter.

7. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

8. Reality, consciousness, space, time, universe, matrix and metaverse are all synonymous.

9. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Sharon Begley

10. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Theodore Parker

11. The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes; to behold the universe through the eyes of another—of a hundred others—to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust

12. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

13. The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

14. The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us.

Marcel Proust

15. There are only 3 things in the universe: the known-knowns, the known-unknowns and the unknown-unknowns. What we know, what we don't know and what we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

16. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

17. There are places you can go without distance.

18. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

19. There is no absolute up or down; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe and the observer is always at the center of things.

Giordano Bruno

20. There is no 'outside' the universe. There is no 'before' the Big Bang.

21. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

22. Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

23. Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

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