I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
Daniel Dennett

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
Jacques Lacan

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
Alan Moore

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
Leonhard Euler

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
Tom Wolfe

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
Erwin Schrodinger

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Andre Malraux

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
Ruth St. Denis

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.
Ruth St. Denis

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
Ruth St. Denis

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
Rebecca West

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
Rebecca West

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Orson Scott Card

I talk to the universe all the time.
Ted Lange

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Andrea Dworkin

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
Mason Cooley

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
Doug Coupland

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille