Pantheism Quotes

• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  God, Nature, Believe

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• Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Holy

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.86, Modern Library

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• God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 25 Apr. 1929

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nature, Animal, Body

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• Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheism, Deism, God Delusion

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Without God

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.18, Commodius Vicus

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Sea, Water

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Thinking, Web Of Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Tree, Humanity, Sacred

  "Nature Is My God". Interview with Fred Matser in "Resurgence", No. 184, September-October 1997.

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• A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, World, Language

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• .... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Order, Words Of Wisdom, Whole

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• God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Causes, All Things

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.26, Commodius Vicus

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• Pantheism, n.
  The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doctrine

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Religion, Stressed

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• With pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking mention 'God' in their writing, this is what they seem to mean: that God is Nature.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Mean, Writing, Order

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• In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

  Sharman Apt Russell

  May, Holy, Century

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• It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.

  Francis Chan

  Selfish, Light, Land

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.44, David C Cook

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• You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

  Florence Nightingale

  Buddhism, Growth, East

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

  Ann Voskamp

  Different, World, Natural

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• Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Dream, Art

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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