Able Quote by Isaac Newton

“we experience that our life is not a bare mechanical motion or change, but is a spiritual, purposive, and self-directing force.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed of self-moving…

— David Ray Griffin

“We must, however, urge it as a matter of the highest import, to cease from self-action and self-exertion, that God himself may act alone:…

— Madame Guyon

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

— Xenophanes

From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of…

— John Locke

“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human…

— Aldous Huxley

We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with…

— Nicholas of Cusa

“Whether one believes that transformation is effected by the will of an outer force, or the willingness of an inner self, does not change…

— Marya Hornbacher

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that…

— John Calvin

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

— Margaret Atwood

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible…

— Carl Jung

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

— Baron de Montesquieu