Universal View Quotes

There are many paths up the Mountain, but the view of the moon from the top is the same.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

I think if we could turn the dial a bit, and try to take what the philosopher Henry Sidgwick called "the point of view of the universe", and look from above, and realize that we are not special, none of us are, I think it would just cause a transformation.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.