Pantheism Quotes - Page 2

• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  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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• If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever Christian today happen to believe and practice, be it pantheism, unitarianism, or sodomy. The Christian faith has suffered immeasurable harm because of the tendency of people to use the word Christian in a careless and non-historical way. Nothing in this argument would preclude liberal Protestants and Catholics from developing and practicing any religion they like.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Believe, Moving

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• Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Causes, Spinoza, Occasional

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• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Believe, Cosmos, One With Nature

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

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• The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Essence, Steps

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, "pandeism," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Mean, Independent, World

  "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 347), 1941.

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• While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Intelligent, Design

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• All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Men, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.590, Courier Corporation

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• I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things

  Albert Einstein

  Two, Soul, Body

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.152, Princeton University Press

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• We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moral, Poet, Scientist

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• Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  People, Way, Consistent

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

  Michael Pollan

  Doctrine, Johnny Appleseed, Evangelists

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• Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, Form, Polite

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• I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of Creator Beauty Himself. God is present in all moments, but I do not deify the wind in the pines, the snow falling on the hemlocks, the moon over harvested wheat. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things . Nature is not God but God revealing the weight of Himself, all His glory, through the looking glass of nature.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Moon, Glasses

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• Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Jesus, Eye, Biblical

  Entry for October 01, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Years, Way

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• We're looking at complexity. We're looking at blond kids in Beverley Hills who can speak Spanish because they have been raised by Guatemalan nannies. We're looking at Evangelicals coming up from Latin America to convert the U.S. at the same time that L.A. movie stars are taking up Indian pantheism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Stars, Latin, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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