“I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“In our forests part divine and makes her heart palpitate wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!” — John Cage Copy Share Image
“All beings exist and nothing else And that’s why they’re called beings” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything. When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something else They’d have done… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“He’s taught me everything. He taught me how to look at things. He shows me everything there is in flowers. He shows… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.” — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
“Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“That lady has a piano. It’s nice, but it’s not the running of rivers Or the murmuring trees make .. Who needs… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“A row of trees far away, there on the hillside. But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees. Row… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism… — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others! He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing, And I look at flowers and I smile... I don’t… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before, I go on like before, alone in the field. It’s like… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“If science wants to be truthful, What science is more truthful than the science of things without science? I close my eyes… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other than himself, not contained… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Genesis 1—portrays the beginning of everything in this created universe. On the face of it, this chapter, and the lines of thought… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Live, you say, in the present; Live only in the present. But I don’t want the present, I want reality; I want… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“The amorous shepherd has lost his staff, And his sheep are straying on the hillside, And he didn’t even play the flute… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“God did not create the world, He became the world. God became the world to realize himself, in material form, to realize… — Harry Waton Copy Share Image
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Even so, I’m somebody. I’m the Discoverer of Nature. I’m the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image