Robert Fulghum Quotes

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

The meaning of life is life.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you have to be thoughtful about the way that you're doing it. So I describe it as purpose. If you can think about leading a purposeful life - not just an accumulation but you actually make the world a better place - then I think in the grand scheme of the universe, that that explains our existence. If not, we're just passing through. We're grains of sand and we're blowing in the breeze.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.