Walter Terence Stace: Quotes about nature

Walter Terence Stace was British civil servant, educator and philosopher.. Explore interesting quotes on nature.
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“It is not likely that science, which is basically the cause of our spiritual troubles, is likely also to produce the cure for them. Also it lies in the nature of science that, though it can teach us the best means for achieving our ends, it can never tell us what ends to pursue.”

Walter Terence Stace

p.13.

Nature , Science

“But the divine mystery is inherent in the divine, a part of the nature of God, and can never disappear. And this means that it is still a mystery even to the mystic who has directly experienced it, nay, even to God Himself. That is why it is ineffable. The mystery and the ineffability of God are one and the same thing.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 37

God , Nature , Parting

“To suppose that the world aims, as some human beings do, at noble ends, is plainly anthropomorphic. And perhaps the chief ground for refusing to admit purpose in nature is just that there is no evidence of it.”

Walter Terence Stace
World , Nature

“How is it possible for both naturalism and religion - atheism and theism, if you prefer it - to be but two sides of one truth, is the same as the problem how God can be both being and non-being, as one of the most ancient religious and mystical insights proclaims he is, or how he can be both the Eternal Yes and the Eternal Nay, as Böhme affirmed.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. VI.

God , Truth , Religion , Nature

“There is no such thing as natural theology. God is either known by revelation - that is to say, by intuition - or not at all.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 151

God , Nature

“If God does not lie at the end of any telescope, neither does he lie at the end of any syllogism. I can never starting from the natural order prove the divine order. The proof of the divine order must lie, somehow, within itself. It must be its own witness. For it, like the natural order, is complete within itself, self-contained.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 138.

God , Lie , Nature

“Thus we see that mysticism naturally, though not necessarily, becomes intimately associated with whatever is the religion of the culture in which it appears.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 25.

Religion , Nature , Appearance