50 Metaphors for universes

In short, the whole Universe is a kind of Theatre filled with Objects that either raise in us Pleasure, Amusement, or Admiration.

Concluding that the universe is a shabby affair, they like to make it out shabbier still,and so, seldom brighten up till they have an ill thing to say.

The whole universe is our world and it is all explained by the scientists, or is explicable.

In order to cope with these, it seems necessary to assume that our universe is only a portion of a greater universe.

The material universe, the ancient physics teach, was originally pure thought, Manasa, the product of the spiritual planes above.

Similarly, the universe is unity, yet not a unity absolutely above multiplicity and diversity, but one which is divided into many members and obscured thereby.

The universe is for him a harmony, an organism, a work of art, before which he stands in admiration and reverential awe.

Supreme in heaven and in earth, "upholding all things by the word of his power," the universe is His magazine of means.

Thus the central conception of Green's philosophy becomes, "that the universe is a single eternal activity or energy, of which it is the essence to be self-conscious, that is, to be itself and not itself in one" (Nettleship).

I called such intellectualism illegitimate as I found it used in Lotze's, Royce's, and Bradley's proofs of the absolute (which absolute I consequently held to be non-proven by their arguments), and I left off by asserting my own belief that a pluralistic and incompletely integrated universe, describable only by the free use of the word 'some,' is a legitimate hypothesis.

Even when Maeterlinck tells us that it is impossible for the universe to be a mistake, and that our own reason necessarily corresponds with the eternal laws of the universe, we may answer that we hope, and even believe, that he is right, but on such a basis we can found no certainty whatever.

Richard Middleton knew that there was a puzzle; in other words, that the universe is a great mystery; and this consciousness of his is the source of the charm of "The Ghost Ship.

I can imagine a believer in the absolute retorting at this point that he at any rate is not dealing with mere probabilities, but that the nature of things logically requires the multitudinous erroneous copies, and that therefore the universe cannot be the absolute's book alone.

That soot and that diamond are actually the same substance; of that there is no doubt whatsoever; but as the light, dirty, almost useless soot is to the pure, and clear, hard diamond, ay, to a mountain, a world, a whole universe made of pure diamondif such a thing were possibleso is the mind of man compared with that Mind of the ever blessed Trinity, which made the worlds, and sustains them in life and order to this day.

For an example of this: the universe is indeed a uni-verse, a pure unit, emanating, as we think, from a spirit that is, in the words of old Hooker, "not only one, but very oneness," simple, indivisible, and therefore total in all action; and yet this universe is various, multifarious, full of special character, full even of fierce antagonisms and blazing contradictions.

Thus, man's body is the outward garment of his soul, and the universe is the visible garment of the invisible God.

The whole material universe is all illusion; a mere temporary relation of its atoms through motion, without Reality or permanence.

The universe, therefore, should be a scene, not of absolute order, but of absolute disorder; and since it is not such, we have nothing for it but to say that either the logic of the universe, or that of Mr. Buckle, is very much awry.

The Universe is Transformation; life is opinion" (iv. 3.)

To my innermost consciousness the phenomenal universe is a royal mantle, vibrating with His divine breath.

He states the title of his book, a simple fact, and manages to imply that the universe is a lunatic misunderstanding, that we are all waiting at the wrong bus stop.

For while his ablest exponents admit that no sufficient evidence is left to show very clearly what he meant, there seems no reason for supposing that to him the Universe was a Living God.

If the Universe be the Creature of an intelligent Mind, this Mind could have no immediate Regard to himself in producing it.

He was not especially given to metaphysics; but it would not have been very difficult for him to believe that the entire universe was an emanation from the brain of Theobald Pallinsona phenomenal world existing only in his sense of sight and touch.

The whole Universe is one vast Organism (Enn. ix.

50 Metaphors for  universes