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I firmly disbelieve, myself, that our human experience is the highest form of experience extant in the universe. I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawing-rooms and libraries. They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangent to the wider life of things.

William James

Pragmatism

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James, William. "Pragmatism and Religion." Dec. 1906, Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA. Lecture.

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James, William. "Pragmatism and Religion." Pragmatism. Dover Publications, 2018.

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I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

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Feynman, Richard. "The Value of Science." 1955, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.

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A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."

Stephen Crane

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A Man Said to the Universe

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Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899, I. 1.

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Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. Dover Publications, 2016, I. 1.

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You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann

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Desiderata

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Ehrmann, Max. Desiderata. Michigan Tradesman, 5 Apr. 1933.

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Just feel what the wave is doing. Then accept its energy. Get in sync and charge with it. You don't need to see.

Point Break

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Point Break. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Johnny Utah Productions/Largo Entertainment, 1991.

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All that is in harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

Marcus Aurelius

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Calvin

Quoted in Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

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Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Comic Strip. 8 Nov. 1989.

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We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

Interstellar

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Interstellar. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Legendary Pictures/Syncopy/Lynda Obst Productions, 2014.

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

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The Exploration of Space

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Hubble, Edwin. “The Exploration of Space.” Harper’s Magazine, May 1929.

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Though I
have not been here long, I can
look up at the sky at night and tell
how things are likely to go for
the next hundred million years:
the universe will probably not find
a way to vanish nor I
in all that time reappear.

A.R. Ammons

Rapids

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Ammons, Archie Randolph. "Rapids." A Coast of Trees. W. W. Norton & Company, 1981, I. 5.

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Walk not on the earth exultantly; certainly thou wilt never tear the earth open, nor attain the mountains in height.

Muhammad

The Quran

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The Quran. c. 630, 17:37.

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The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 17.

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The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one.

Zhuang Zhou

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Zhou, Zhuang. 莊子 [Zhuangzi]. c. 221 BC, ch. 2.

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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 14.

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Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way and where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Chariots of Fire

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Chariots of Fire. Directed by Hugh Hudson, Allied Stars Ltd/Goldcrest Films/Enigma Productions, 1981.

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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

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Santayana, George. "On My Friendly Critics." Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable and Co., 1922.

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Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 6.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.

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