Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
The Eight Human Talents (2001)
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
“To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.”
Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher
“My construction will cover the entire Universe.”
Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) Indian guru
Sathya Sai Baba Discourse, October 1961 p. 120, 'Sathya Sai Speaks' Vol 2.
Paul Davies book God and the New Physics
Source: God and the New Physics (1983), Ch. 17: 'The physicist's conception of nature', p. 223
Ikkyu (1394–1481) Japanese Buddhist monk
"A Man's Root" as quoted in Mishima's Sword : Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (2007) by Christopher Ross, p. 195.
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
“There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
“My heart is a little larger than the entire universe.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
"Saí do comboio" (4 July 1934), trans. Richard Zenith.
“The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.”
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Quoted in Essays in Zoosemiotics (1990) by Thomas A. Sebeok
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: It is only the individual possessed of the most entire sincerity that can exist under Heaven, who can adjust the great invariable relations of mankind, establish the great fundamental virtues of humanity, and know the transforming and nurturing operations of Heaven and Earth; — shall this individual have any being or anything beyond himself on which he depends? Call him man in his ideal, how earnest is he! Call him an abyss, how deep is he! Call him Heaven, how vast is he! Who can know him, but he who is indeed quick in apprehension, clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence, and all-embracing knowledge, possessing all Heavenly virtue?