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1		"Many teachers praise Love as the highest virtue, like Saint Paul when he says: 'Whatever exercises I undergo, if I have no Love I have nothing.'" Johannes Eckhart (ca. 1260-1327)

2		"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)

3		"All unite, intersect, and through mutual communication engender thoughts in each other. This is inborn in man at his birth; and free will, self-determination, consciousness, reason, and the foundation of all spiritual power are contained herein." Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887), professor of physics and chemistry

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

5		"God is the creator of the essence and existence of beings." Emile Boutroux (1845-1921), teacher of Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris

6		"Justice brings serenity to the conscience, while injustice brings torments and remorse." Hugues De Groot (1583-1645), Dutch philosopher

7		"Consciousness corresponds exactly to the living being's power of choice; it is coextensive with the fringe of possible action that surrounds the real action; consciousness is synonymous with invention and with freedom." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France

8		"Reason governs the world, and has consequently governed its history." Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher

9		"Sublimity and marvellous order reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought." Albert Einstein (b. 1879)

10		"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

11		"Epictetus taught that reason governed the world and was identical with God." Dagobert Runes

12		"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

13		"Life as a whole is, in its essential, substantial relations, throughout of a divine nature." Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), German philosopher

14		"Man is formed eternally in the divine mind." Johannes Scotus Eriugena (ca. 815-877), translator and philosopher

15		"Every thing in nature is connected: one state pushes forward and prepares another." Johann G. Herder (1744-1803)

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

17		"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

18		"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

19		"God is in every human being; nothing is apart from God." Dagobert Runes

20		"What more can a man want to learn than this, that the one God and Creator and Master of all that lives pervades the Universe?" Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948),

21		"Spirit may be defined as that which has its center in itself." Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher

22		"Anaximenes of Miletus, son of Eurastratos, who had been an associate of Anaximander, said, like him, that the underlying substance was one and infinite." Fragments of Anaximenes (ca. 585-525 bce), Milesian philosopher

23		"Where will you seek for God? Seek him in your Soul that is proceeded out of the eternal Nature, wherein the divine Birth stands." Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)

24		"The only cause of all created things, whether heavenly or earthy, whether visible or invisible, is the goodness of the Creator, the one true God; and nothing exists but Himself that does not derive its existence from Him." St. Augustine (354-430)

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