“The idea of God is an interpretation of experience.”
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Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice Pre… 1888–1975Related quotes
Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)
Context: Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.
“The problem of experiences is not limited to the interpretation of sense-impressions.”
Science and the Unseen World (1929), IV, p.40
The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics (1962) p. viii.
“Social science is itself part of the social experience it seeks to interpret and explain.”
Discrepancies among the Social Sciences (1981)
“A god is the idea of a god. The idea of a god is a god.”
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: A god is the idea of a god. The idea of a god is a god. The idea of Glycon is Glycon, if I can enhance that idea with an anaconda and a speaking tube, fair enough. I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe. It’s a fiction, all gods are fiction. It’s just that I happen to think that fiction’s real. Or that it has its own reality, that is just as valid as ours. I happen to believe that most of the important things in the material world start out as fiction. That everything around us was once fiction – before there was the table there was the idea of a table, and the idea of a table before tables was fiction. This is the most important world, the world of fictional things. That’s the world where all this starts.
“God is the architect of the event; you are the interpreter of the moment.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 32
Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Four, Revelation and Theology, p. 79
“Observations interpreted by reason. Few, if any, ideas have had such impact on the lives of men.”
Source: World Without End (1995), Chapter 9 (p. 139)