Pantheism & Cosmic Reverence

“I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.”

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”

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

“Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.”

“If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.”

“The chiliasts made an atheist out of me.”

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

“The only way to have a good friend is to be one.”

“In the faces of men and women I see God.”

“Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.”

“Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.”

“The deed is everything, the glory nothing.”

“If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.”

“Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.”

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

“Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.”

“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”

“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.”

“Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.”

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

“I think the Ethics will have a permanent effect on me.”

“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”

“Anatomy is not destiny, but it is not irrelevant either.”

“One touch of nature makes all the world kin.”

“Never read any book that is not a year old.”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”