The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means 'the world order of a particular place.' The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.
Quotes about cosmos (14 Quotes)
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
The biologist can push it back to the original protist, and the chemist can push it back to the crystal, but none of them touch the real question of why or how the thing began at all. The astronomer goes back untold million of years and ends in gas and emptiness, and then the mathematician sweeps the whole cosmos into unreality and leaves one with mind as the only thing of which we have any immediate apprehension. Cogito ergo sum, ergo omnia esse videntur. All this bother, and we are no further than Descartes. Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
In this world there are two orders of being the perishable, separate creature and the changeless spirit. But beyond these there is another, the supreme Self, the eternal Lord, who enters into the entire cosmos and supports it from within. I am that supreme Self, praised by the scriptures as beyond the changing and the changeless. Those who see in me that supreme Self see truly. They have found the source of all wisdom, ... and they worship me with all their heart.
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the
For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
It's amazing how much Cosmos speaks to us today.
Cosmo's always had a really authentic voice -- there's no B. S.. We don't have that earnest voice that a lot of women's magazines do.
Probably Cosmos' major shareholders still declined to hand over management control to GE.
There will be certain Cosmos fans here just for them. They had a wonderful team and you can never take that away from them.