Famous quotes containing the words universe, additional, facts and/or sets:
“The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the worlds worship.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
“Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.”
—Edith Hamilton (18671963)
“We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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