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A TREASURY OF PHILOSOPHY, VOL. 1
Dagobert D. Runes, editor
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"In everything there is a portion of everything." Anaxagoras (ca. 500-428 bce), Greek philosopher
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"Substance is one." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American Transcendentalist lecturer and writer
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"There are no ends, limits, margins, or walls, that keep back or subtract any parcel of the infinite abundance of things." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), philosopher and poet
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"All life is eternal; there is no other." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American Transcendentalist lecturer and writer
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"We can find no province of the world so low but the Absolute inhabits it." Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924), English philosopher
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"The true Heaven wherein God dwells, is all over, in all Places, even in the Midst of the Earth." Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
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"When many, writing in different times and places, affirm the same thing as true, their unanimity must be referred to some universal cause." Hugues De Groot (1583-1645), Dutch philosopher
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"Every thing in nature is connected: one state pushes forward and prepares another." Johann G. Herder (1744-1803)
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"Where will you seek for God? Seek him in your Soul that is proceeded out of the eternal Nature, wherein the divine Birth stands." Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
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"Consciousness corresponds exactly to the living being's power of choice; it is coextensive with the fringe of possible action that surrounds the real action; consciousness is synonymous with invention and with freedom." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France
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"What more can a man want to learn than this, that the one God and Creator and Master of all that lives pervades the Universe?" Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948),
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"We are now and always in eternity." William Torrey Harris (1835-1909), American philosopher
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"Nothing is isolated…the parts live in and through their relation to the whole." James Edwin Creighton (1861-1924)
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"Love….is in itself divine." Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)
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"Life as a whole is, in its essential, substantial relations, throughout of a divine nature." Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), German philosopher
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"Many teachers praise Love as the highest virtue, like Saint Paul when he says: 'Whatever exercises I undergo, if I have no Love I have nothing.'" Johannes Eckhart (ca. 1260-1327)
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"God is in every human being; nothing is apart from God." Dagobert Runes
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"An infinitely wise Being perfectly comprehends within his understanding and constant view the universality of things, in all their extent and duration, and sees all the influence of every event, with respect to every individual thing and circumstance throughout the grand system." Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), American preacher and philosopher
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"The laws of thought, in all its processes of conception and of reasoning, in all those operations of which language is the expression or the instrument, are of the same kind as are the laws of the acknowledged processes of Mathematics." George Boole (1815-1864), English philosopher
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"We have the innate need of harmony in the moral relations; this is our glory, and the stamp of the Divine upon our nature." Felix Adler (1851-1933), founder of the American Ethical Union
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"Only he to whom all is one, who draws all things to one, and sees all things in one, may enjoy true peace and rest of spirit." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American Transcendentalist lecturer and writer
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"The same kernel of human nature [is] the one thing common to all individuals alike." Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1832-1912)
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"God is the spirit of all spirits; the essence of all essences." Francis Xavier von Baader (1765-1841)
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"As the smallest grain of dust is bound up with our entire solar system, drawn along with it in that undivided movement….so all organized beings, from the humblest to the highest, from the first origins of life to the time in which we are, and in all places as in all times, do but evidence a single impulsion." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France
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"There is a great fact known to us more certainly than the existence of matter: it is the unity of consciousness." Josephus Flavius Cook (1838-1901), American lecturer
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