Body, Novalis

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

- Novalis (1772-1801)

Deity, Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Universe, Jorge Luis Borges

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" in Other Inquisitions (1952), as translated by Will Fitzgerald

Universe, Dejan Stojanovic

The universe is God’s son.

- Dejan Stojanovic (1959- ), in The Sun Watches the Sun (1999) “God’s Son” (Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”)

Universe, Henri Bergson

[L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.

- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Universe

Universe, Albert Einstein

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Universe, Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Universe, Laughter

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

- Jean Houston (1937- )

Universe, Bernard Bailey

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

- Bernard Bailey (1916-1996)

Universe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Bliss, Happiness

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

- Louise Bogan (1897–1970), US-american Poet

Universe, Baruch Spinoza

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Universe, Bertrand Russell

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Science, Albert Einstein

My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)