Definition of Cosmos

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Cosmos

The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.

A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and C. diversifolius are among the best-known species; C. caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.

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Cosmos Quotations

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
David Foster Wallace

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.
Leonard Nimoy

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Jackie Gleason

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
Sun Ra

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Jeanette Winterson

Cosmos Translations

cosmos in Dutch is kosmos, heelal
cosmos in French is cosmos
cosmos in German is Kosmos
cosmos in Spanish is cosmos

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