„Specific procedures of universe-maintenance become necessary when the symbolic universe has become a problem. As long as this is not the case, the symbolic universe is self-maintaining, that is, self-legitimating by the sheer facticity of its objective existence in the society in question.“
— Peter L. Berger, (1991; 123)
Peter L. Berger
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„The accepted theory that the serpent is evil cannot be substantiated. It has long been viewed as the emblem of immortality. It is the symbol of reincarnation, or metempsychosis, because it annually sheds its skin... It was also believed that snakes swallowed themselves, and this resulted in their being considered emblematic of the Supreme Creator, who periodically reabsorbed His universe back into Himself.“
— Manly P. Hall Canadian writer and mystic 1901 - 1990
Chapter: Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds
„The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not primarily of objects to be used. As a subject, each component of the universe is capable of having rights.“
— Thomas Berry American priest 1914 - 2009
Appendix 2, p. 149
„Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.“
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet 1807 - 1882
Outre-Mer.
„What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.“
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Context: Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Ch. 12
„To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education.“
— Manly P. Hall Canadian writer and mystic 1901 - 1990
Context: A nation with culture is blessed. To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.
Quoted in the tribute of The Lost Symbol (2009) by Dan Brown
„What is most personal is most universal.“
— Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
„The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky occult writer 1831 - 1891
„We … wish especially to outline the conditions for entering a future that will lead to the larger fulfillment for which the entire planet, as well as ourselves, seems to be destined. The first condition for achieving this objective is to realize that the universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.“
— Thomas Berry American priest 1914 - 2009
Chapter 1, p. 17
„The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.“
— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914
July 1890, page 313
„The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.“
— Neil deGrasse Tyson American astrophysicist and science communicator 1958
„The reason that university politics is so vicious is that the stakes are so small.“
— Henry Kissinger United States Secretary of State 1923
This remark was first attributed to Kissinger, among others, in the 1970s. The Quote Verifier (2006) attributes it to political scientist Paul Sayre, but notes earlier similar remarks by Woodrow Wilson. Clyde J. Wingfield referred to it as a familiar joke in The American University (1970)
Unattributed variants:
Somebody once said that one of the reasons academic infighting is so vicious is that the stakes are so small. There's so little at stake and they are so nasty about it.
The Craft of Crime : Conversations with Crime Writers (1983) by John C. Carr
The reason that academic politics is so vicious is that the stakes are so small.
Mentioned as an "old saw" in Teachers for Our Nation's Schools (1990) by John I. Goodlad
„If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space.“
— Carl Sagan, Contact
This is a paraphrase of Sagan quoting Thomas Carlyle: "A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space."
Sagan delivered this quote during the symposium on "Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man", held at Boston University (20 November 1972), published in Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man (1973) edited by Richard Berendzen; Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man (1975) National Archives video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQeOp7a8QMI