God and the divine
“Faith in God is dead.”
— Nietzsche, The Will to Power
“Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.”
— Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine
“The eternal and infinite Being, which we call God or Nature, acts by the same necessity as that whereby it exists.”
— Spinoza, Ethics — Part 4
“Each soul is potentially divine.”
— Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga
“Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever.”
— Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita (The Song Celestial)
“God is with those who fear him and do good deeds.”
— Quran, The Qur'an
“A being than which nothing greater can be conceived.”
— Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogium, Monologium, and Cur Deus Homo (Deane)
“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
— Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State
“A firm conviction of the mind to the effect that Brahman is real and the universe unreal, is designated as discrimination between the Real and the unreal.”
— Adi Shankara, Vivekachudamani
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
“The more we understand particular things, the more do we understand God.”
— Spinoza, Ethics
“All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth... have not any subsistence without a mind.”
— George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
— David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
“Tat twam asi — "That thou art."”
— Upanishads, The Upanishads
“The Universe is either a confusion ravelled and unravelled again, or else a unity compact of order and forethought.”
— Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
— Plato, The Republic