David Bohm Quotes

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.

I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.

I think the universe works perfectly.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.