Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher
Book 1, p. 8
Cosmotheoros (1695; publ. 1698)
“The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
As quoted from "Dying Sayings" of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches by Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
The Epitaph, St. 3 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751) <br class="br">Variant: No farther seek his merits to disclose, <br> Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, <br> (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) <br> The bosom of his Father and his God.
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.”
Variant: The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Source: Fight Club
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Autobiography of Values (1978)
Context: In some future incarnation from our life stream, we may even understand the reason for our existence in forms of earthly life. The growing knowledge of science does not refute man's intuition of the mystical. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or in time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. Only in the twentieth century do we realize that space is not empty, that it is packed with energy; it may be existence's source. Then, if space has produced existence and the form of man, can we deduce from it a form for God?
