Walter Russell Quotes

Walter Bowman Russell was an impressionist American painter , sculptor, natural philosopher, musician, author, and builder. The New York Herald Tribune called him "the modern Leonardo", a Renaissance man for the twentieth century. Although considered by some a polymath, Russell was not an academician.

He has left a legacy that centers around his unique Cosmogony, or concept of the universe, having spent many years writing about the nature of humankind's relationship to the Universal One and the degrees of consciousness.



✵ 19. May 1871 – 19. May 1963
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Famous Walter Russell Quotes

“All men will come to me in due time, but theirs is the agony of awaiting.”

Walter Russell

Source: A New Concept of the Universe (1953), p. 141

“I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.”

Walter Russell

The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

“The sole purpose of man on earth is to manifest his Creator. He has no other purpose.”

Walter Russell

Source: A New Concept of the Universe (1953), p. 139

Walter Russell Quotes about nature

“Action is man's free will right, but the reaction is nature's.”

Walter Russell

Source: A New Concept of the Universe (1953), p. 132

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