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1		"Everything interpenetrates." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France

2		"Reason quickens dormant springs, frees what is hidden….It presses toward the One that is all." Karl Jaspers (b. 1883), German philosopher

3		"None can escape the Presence." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American Transcendentalist lecturer and writer

4		"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

5		"The current of life is composed of parts and experiences which bear an inner relation to each other." Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911)

6		"The mold into which we have been cast is that divinity of the world which was at the beginning and will remain forever." Paul Carus (1852-1919)

7		"The same kernel of human nature [is] the one thing common to all individuals alike." Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1832-1912)

8		"Substance is one." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American Transcendentalist lecturer and writer

9		"There is no excellence among the creatures which is not to be found in a much higher style, and as an archetype, in the Creator." Albertus Magnus (1193-1280)

10		"Love….is in itself divine." Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)

11		"We can find no province of the world so low but the Absolute inhabits it." Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924), English philosopher

12		"Language furnishes consciousness with an immaterial body in which to incarnate itself." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France

13		"This vast congeries of volitions, interests, and activities, constitutes the instruments and means of the world-spirit for attaining its object; bringing it to consciousness, and realizing it. And this aim is none other than finding itself – coming to itself – and contemplating itself in concrete actuality." Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher

14		"All the different truths are but so many different aspects of one and the same truth." Paul Carus (1852-1919

15		"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

16		"Every organ of the human body and every member of human society is producing on behalf of the whole." Moses Hess (1812-1875), Jewish philosopher

17		"All this that we see in this great Universe is pervaded by God." Ishopanishad

18		"Those who have maintained that the position of Mathematics is a fundamental one, have drawn one of their strongest arguments from the actual constitution of things. The material frame is subject in all its parts to the relations of number. All dynamical, chemical, electrical, thermal actions seem not only to be measurable in themselves, but to be connected with each other, even to the extent of mutual convertibility, by numerical relations of a perfectly definite kind." George Boole (1815-1864), English philosopher

19		"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

20		"God is…the providential agent, prepared to guard the fate of our planet and the interests of its inhabitants." Leon Brunschwigg (1869-1944), professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris

21		"In everything there is a portion of everything." Anaxagoras (ca. 500-428 bce), Greek philosopher

22		"Homer correctly stated: 'The will of Zeus is done', referring to the fate and nature of the universe by which all things are governed." Chrysippus (ca. 280-207 bce), Stoic philosopher

23		"All of our souls are but one soul." Johannes Scotus Eriugena (ca. 815-877), translator and philosopher

24		"The right, the true, the good, has always its ground of sacredness in itself, in its quality." Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)

25		"We are now and always in eternity." William Torrey Harris (1835-1909), American philosopher