
"On the Principles of Political Morality that Should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic" (5 February 1794)
"On the Principles of Political Morality that Should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic" (5 February 1794)
Letter to Frank Belknap Long (27 February 1931), in Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 293
Non-Fiction, Letters, to Frank Belknap Long
Par l’art seulement, nous pouvons sortir de nous, savoir ce que voit un autre de cet univers qui n’est pas le même que le nôtre et dont les paysages nous seraient restés aussi inconnus que ceux qu’il peut y avoir dans la lune. Grâce à l’art, au lieu de voir un seul monde, le nôtre, nous le voyons se multiplier, et autant qu’il y a d’artistes originaux, autant nous avons de mondes à notre disposition, plus différents les uns des autres que ceux qui roulent dans l’infini et qui, bien des siècles après qu’est éteint le foyer dont il émanait, qu’il s’appelât Rembrandt ou Vermeer, nous envoient encore leur rayon spécial.<p>Ce travail de l’artiste, de chercher à apercevoir sous la matière, sous de l’expérience, sous des mots, quelque chose de différent, c’est exactement le travail inverse de celui que, à chaque minute, quand nous vivons détourné de nous-même, l’amour-propre, la passion, l’intelligence, et l’habitude aussi accomplissent en nous, quand elles amassent au-dessus de nos impressions vraies, pour nous les cacher entièrement, les nomenclatures, les buts pratiques que nous appelons faussement la vie.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: "An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes"
Source: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics (2012, 2nd ed. 2015), Ch. 3: General Principles of Quantum Mechanics
(1993), Epilogue, p. 154
The First Three Minutes (1977; second edition 1993)
Mswati III (2019) cited in: " Allies voice support for Taiwan's inclusion in U.N. activities http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201909260004.aspx" in Focus Taiwan, 26 September 2019.
Statement made during the General Debate of the 74th general assembly of the United Nations, 25 September 2019.
The Economics of Success (D. van Nostrand & Co., 1963), pp. 291–292
Conversations with Eckermann (entry for 31 January 1827)
Mark Lilla, "Mr. Casaubon in America", The New York Review of Books (June 28, 2007)
Russell Kirk, " Ten Conservative Principles http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/ten-conservative-principles/" (1993)
The most surprising circumstance is that this letter, though written by an obscure person, was so happy in its effect as to put a stop to the persecution.
The History of the Quakers (1762)
2002 TED talk by Mae Jemison https://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together/transcript?language=en, TED talk "Teach arts and sciences together," February, 2002
spirituality and wisdom
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 71
Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom (1867)
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
“Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.”
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
Source: We Were Liars
“Truth is naturally universal… and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.”
Source: Green Darkness
“A smile is the universal welcome.”
Source: The Sense of Humor
79
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“The universe is an intelligence test”
As quoted in Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) by Robert Anton Wilson, p. 170
“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.”
Source: Sex and the City
Source: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
“The Universe is on the side of Justice”
Comment on "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA", November 13, 2011 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c2zg9lk,
2010s
“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe niel and I”
Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu/cdm/ref/collection/muirjournals/id/115/show/3, which started 1 July 1867
1860s
“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“he threw up his hands
and wrote the Universe dont exist
and died to prove it”
Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
Multiple variations of this quote can be found, but the earliest one on Google Books which uses the phrase "friendly or hostile" and attributes it to Einstein is The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spiritual Healing by Susan Gregg (2000), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=XLQ8X67PozAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false, and this book gives no source for the quote.
A variant is found in Irving Oyle's The New American Medicine Show (1979) on p. 163, where Oyle writes: 'There is a story about Albert Einstein's view of human existence. Asked to pose the most vital question facing humanity, he replied, "Is the universe friendly?"' This variant is repeated in a number of books from the 1980s and 90s, so it probably pre-dates the "friendly or hostile" version. And the idea that the most important question we can ask is "Is the universe friendly?" dates back much earlier than the attribution to Einstein, for example in Emil Carl Wilm's 1912 book The Problem of Religion he includes the following footnote on p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=nWYiAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false: 'A friend proposed to the late F. W. H. Myers the following question: "What is the thing which above all others you would like to know? If you could ask the Sphinx one question, and only one, what would the question be?" After a moment's silence Myers replied: "I think it would be this: Is the universe friendly?"'
Misattributed
“We doctors know a hopeless case if — listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go”
XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind
1 x 1 (1944)
Variant: listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
Source: The Eight
2000s
Context: No matter who you are, engaging in the quest to discover where and how things began tends to induce emotional fervor—as if knowing the beginning bestows upon you some form of fellowship with, or perhaps governance over, all that comes later. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
“Humor is just another defense against the
universe.”
“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”
“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
Source: 1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
“The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.”
“whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should”
Source: Tangled
“It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to.”
Source: Levels of Life
“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
Source: On Suicide
“The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”
Source: Beautiful Lies
Letter to Phyllis Wright (January 24, 1936), published in Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children (Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 129
1930s
“I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.”
Source: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman