Se"   plural como o universo! Be plural, like the universe!

-Pessoa, Fernando Anto¤  nio Nogueira
Pa¤  ginas IŁ  ntimas e deAuto-interpreta c° a‹  o.

Togrowolder istorealizetheuniverseisCopernican, not Ptolemaic, and that self and the loved one do not form the epicentre of the solar system.

-Phillips, Edward O
  Sunday Best.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answerscan, asa rule, be knowntobetrue, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  The Problems of Philosophy, ch.14.

Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite¤   humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

-Sartre,Jean-Paul
  L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism and Humanism,1948) (translated by Philip Mairet).

No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.

-Self,Will
The QuantityTheory of Insanity and Five Supporting Propositions,'The QuantityTheory of Insanity'.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc.4, l.72^3.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.14.

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'TheTwoVoices', stanza 9, l.25^7.

I saw the flaring atom-streams And torrents of her myriad universe, Ruining along the illimitable inane Fly on to clash together again, and make Another and another frame of things For ever.

-Tennyson
  'Lucretius',1.38^40.

In terms ofcommunication,Japan isliketheblack hole of the universe. It receives signals but does not emit them.

-Umaseo,Tadao
Quoted in David Halberstam The Reckoning (1986).

In this universe, Where the least things control the greatest, where The faintest breath that breathes can move a world.

-Wordsworth,William
^6  Oswald.The Borderers, act 3,1.1562^4 (published1842).

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Influenceof NaturalObjects', l.1^4 (publishedinTheFriend 28 Dec1809).