Pantheism famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
-- Ambrose Bierce

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Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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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 vÃ©ritÃ© , 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

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Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
-- Richard Dawkins

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In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, â€œEverything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
-- Sharman Apt Russell

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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

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I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.
Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.
My first murder was thrilling because I had embarked on the career I had chosen for myself, the career of murder.
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.