Top 125 Microcosm Quotes & Sayings

The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Bollywood is a microcosm of society, it's no different from the world.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also the microcosm of the Universe. In other words, we are pictures of the essence of the planet and thusly of the universe. As such, when we change ourselves, we change the Earth and the universe.

The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting Indias diversity.

The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm.

'Fortitude' is like the world in microcosm. It's like watching America or Russia, only you're isolated. Once you're inside, you can't escape.

I think we're just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might see in the physical world.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

Inglewood is a microcosm of Los Angeles. It's a city by the airport. It's the first city when you're coming into L.A., and the last city when you leave.

The military is a microcosm of American society, so it really is not unusual that they would have Klan people and white supremacy people connected to them.

I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm and the microcosm, not only from the point of view of wisdom, but also from the intellectual side, that is, in a bipolar way, to perceive and utilize them for his own development.

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Ithaca is sort of a populated and diverse area. There's a wide spectrum of people living there. In that sense, it was a wonderful place to grow up because it was a microcosm - ultimately, I would learn - of New York City.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It's almost like it's a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

Florida is a great microcosm of the country.

Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

Everybody's going to be clamoring, that's the way you should work your bullpens from now on, but you have to have the appropriate people to do that, and of course during the season it would be much more difficult as opposed to the microcosm of the postseason.

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'