Sentences with phrase «very essence of the universe»

«Pure conservatism» would be a violation of the very essence of the universe.6 Thus if we are to speak of a cosmic aim or of natures purpose we must recognize that its realization would occur only along the exciting but treacherous pathway of adventure.

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The man who is wholly taken up with the demands of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances of things seldom gains more than a glimpse, at best, of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us at every point of contact the unique essence of the universe.
In summary, the universe in its very essence, at the heart of the actual entities which compose it, is a striving after harmony, after Beauty, after value.
He argued that while each human being has a very tiny life span, or finite appearance in the whole of space - time of the universe, humanity is also an eternal intelligible essence.
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