It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
I am just so appreciative of God's love. It's higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.
A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat.
I should ask if it was good for you," Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.
God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.
Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.
