„How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?“

— Thomas Aquinas

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„A billion stars go spinning through the night,glittering above your head,But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said 'billion' many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said 'billions and billions.' For one thing, it's imprecise. How many billions are 'billions and billions'? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? 'Billions and billions' is pretty vague… For a while, out of childish pique, I wouldn't utter the phrase, even when asked to. But I've gotten over that. So, for the record, here it goes: 'Billions and billions.“
— Carl Sagan
„A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.“
— Carl Sagan
„Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.“
— John Lennon
„Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.“
— Confucius
„After all human beings have to live dogs too so as not to know that time is passing, that is the whole business of living to go on so they will not know that time is passing, that is why they get drunk that is why they like to go to war, during a war there is the most complete absence of the sense that time is passing a year of war lasts so much longer than any other year. After all that is what life is and that is the reason there is no Utopia, little or big young or old dog or man everybody wants every minute so filled that they are not conscious of that minute passing. It's just as well they do not think about it you have to be a genius to live in it and know it to exist in it and express it to accept it and deny it by creating it.“
— Gertrude Stein