Quotes About Transcendence

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.