“Have faith in creator of this universe believe that he is omnipresent and Supreme power.”
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
Basavanna's Preachings
“You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.”
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Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect
From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
Context: For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
“I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 293.
1930s
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
The Purpose of Life, p. 53
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002)
“The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 4, member 1, subsection 2, Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, pride, vainglory, presumption, &c. his engines, fasting, solitariness, hope, fear, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
The Rights of the Colonists (1772)
Jodie Foster (1962) American actor, film director and producer
As quoted in Calgary Sun (10 July 2007)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 101 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA101 <br class="br">Context: We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporaneousness with the author or the original reader by means of a reconstruction of his historical horizon before we could begin to grasp the meaning of what is said. A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.