Quotes

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 10

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“I do KNOW of a power of a very personal nature and an irresistible influence. I call it ‘God.’ I use this term because it has been used for this kind of experience since time immemorial. From this point of view any gods, Zeus, Wotan, Allah, Yahweh, the Summum Bonum, etc., have their intrinsic truth. They are different and more or less differentiated expressions or aspects of one ineffable truth.”

~C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

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“The universe in its entirety must be regarded as one gigantic process, a process of becoming, of attaining new levels of existence and organisation.”

~Pierre Teilhard deChardin

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“The sum of all individual minds is the one Universal Mind, so that in the last analysis, gods, men, and worlds are each fragments of the whole.”

~Manly P. Hall

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“The One is the foundation of all other things and gives them, at one and the same time, existence and location.”

~Plotinus

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“Reason has to do with finding the ground of being and the fundamental structuring of order of the universe.”

~Joseph Campbell

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“the whole world is the outward form of universal reason.”

~Rumi

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“And in all his works and in all things, man should consciously use his reason and always have a reasonable insight into himself, into his inner being, and grasp God within all things in the highest possible sense.”

~Meister Eckhart

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"The One is all things and no one of them; the source of all things is not all things; all things are its possession- running back, so to speak, to it- or, more correctly, not yet so, they will be.

But a universe from an unbroken unity, in which there appears no diversity, not even duality?

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it: in order that Being may be brought about, the source must be no Being but Being's generator, in what is to be thought of as the primal act of generation. Seeking nothing, possessing nothing, lacking nothing, the One is perfect and, in our metaphor, has overflowed, and in its exuberance has produced the new: this product has turned again to its begetter and been filled and has become its contemplator and so an Intellectual-Principle."

~ Plotinus

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"Institutional reform is a lifetime project, it is a continual project, like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. It is not something you do and then walk away."

~Thomas Carothers

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"One grand great life throbs through earth's giant heart,
And mighty waves of single Being roll
From nerve-less germ to man, for we are part
Of every rock and bird and beast and hill,
One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill."

~Oscar Wilde, (Panthea)

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"God is not separate from the world; He is the soul of the world, and each of us contains a part of the Divine Fire. All things are parts of one single system, which is called Nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with Nature. In one sense, every life is in harmony with Nature, since it is such as Nature’s laws have caused it to be; but in another sense a human life is only in harmony with Nature when the individual will is directed to ends which are among those of Nature. Virtue consists in a will which is in agreement with Nature."

~Zeno (founder of Stoicism)

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There was something formless and perfect
before the universe was born.
It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.
It is the mother of the universe.
For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.

It flows through all things,
inside and outside, and returns
to the origin of all things.

The Tao is great.
The universe is great.
Earth is great.
Man is great.
These are the four great powers.

Man follows the earth.
Earth follows the universe.
The universe follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself.

~Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching

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"Finite consciousness knows God only to the extent to which God knows himself. Spirit is nothing other than those who worship him."

~Hegel, Lectures II

"I acknowledge no authority save the witness of my own eyes."
-Andreas Vesalius, renaissance physician and the first person to study the anatomy of the human body scientifically.

Good one.

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"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

~ Alfred North Whitehead

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"It is the nature of God to reside in mystery-ineluctable,
inexhaustible mystery. We do not need to understand the cabala of
mathematical physics to comprehend the mysterium tremendum.
We need only look out the window."

~Chet Raymo

"As there is nothing before or outside of God he must contain within himself the ground of his existence..."

~Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

I was going to wholeheartedly agree but then I suddenly wondered how my free will fits in.
If God doesn't know how I will excercise my free will then the future "is outside of God."

But then I think of how someone explained it that a God while not knowing those variables would know the ultimate reality or end game.

Also fitting into this would be a God that knew all possibilities, if not the specific one a sentient being, capable of sentiently chosing a possibility, would choose

"I believe therefore I am"

Is this true? I wouldn't think so. It just doesn't seem possiable.

What do you guys think?

I'm sorry, I haven't read all the quotes yet. Only the first four that Aaron did. But I'll read 'em soon! I've got work in the morning, so I'm kinda fast reading here.

Hahahaha!
My Dad just made a quote! My sister's cat, Baby, was meowing up at him and I said "Dad, Baby wants your attention" and he responds by saying: "Oh yeah? Well, people in hell want ice water" XD

ReinGatto wrote:

Hahahaha!
My Dad just made a quote! My sister's cat, Baby, was meowing up at him and I said "Dad, Baby wants your attention" and he responds by saying: "Oh yeah? Well, people in hell want ice water" XD

I was joking Cass... I think???

stretmediq wrote:

ReinGatto wrote:

Hahahaha!
My Dad just made a quote! My sister's cat, Baby, was meowing up at him and I said "Dad, Baby wants your attention" and he responds by saying: "Oh yeah? Well, people in hell want ice water" XD

I was joking Cass... I think???

Huh? Of course you were joking!

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Out of all things there comes a unity, and out of a unity all things...

~Aristotle, de mundo 5, 396b 20

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The hot substance and the cold form what we might call a hot-cold continuum, a single entity.

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Things which are put together are both whole and not whole, brought together and taken apart, in harmony and out of harmony; one thing arises from all things, and all things arise from one thing.

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, fullness and hunger; he changes the way fire does when mixed with spices and is named according to each spice.

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On those who step in the same river, different and different waters flow...

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... the two natures are indivisible; the nature, I mean, of the reasoning power in us, and of the divine Word [logos] above us; but though they are indivisible themselves, they divide an innumerable multitude of other things.

~Heraclitus