Microcosm
A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.
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Microcosm Quotations
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King
Sports is human life in microcosm.
Howard Cosell
Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
Ice T
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm
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
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.
Rowan D. Williams
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
John Phillips
Microcosm Translations
microcosm in German is Mikrokosmos
microcosm in Spanish is microcosmo
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