cosmos quotes

The philosophy which isso important in each of us isnot a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means† it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

-William James
  Pragmatism, lecture1.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
  In The Guardian, 5 Oct.