Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
Context: The Immortal Principle was first called water by Thales. Anaximenes called it air. The Pythagoreans called it number and were thus the first to see the Immortal Principle as something nonmaterial. Heraclitus called the Immortal Principle fire and introduced change as part of the Principle. He said the world exists as a conflict and tension of opposites. He said there is a One and there is a Many and the One is the universal law which is immanent in all things. Anaxagoras was the first to identify the One as nous, meaning "mind."
Parmenides made it clear for the first time that the Immortal Principle, the One, Truth, God, is separate from appearance and from opinion, and the importance of this separation and its effect upon subsequent history cannot be overstated. It's here that the classic mind, for the first time, took leave of its romantic origins and said, "The Good and the True are not necessarily the same," and goes its separate way. Anaxagoras and Parmenides had a listener named Socrates who carried their ideas into full fruition.
Source: Regards sur le monde actuel [Reflections on the World Today] (1931), p. 55
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 6
“To meet people with hypocrisy separates one from God.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 237.
II. That God is unchanging, unbegotten, eternal, incorporeal, and not in space.
Variant translation:
The essences of the gods are neither generated; for eternal natures are without generation; and those beings are eternal who possess a first power, and are naturally void of passivity. Nor are their essences composed from bodies; for even the powers of bodies are incorporeal: nor are they comprehended in place; for this is the property of bodies: nor are they separated from the first cause, or from each other; in the same manner as intellections are not separated from intellect, nor sciences from the soul.
II. That a God is immutable, without Generation, eternal, incorporeal, and has no Subsistence in Place, as translated by Thomas Taylor
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263
“The truth has its own virtue, which is separate from its content.”
Source: A Stranger in Olondria (2013), Chapter 17, “The House of the Horse, My Palace” (p. 248)
“Tell them that we are all one living body that cannot be separated from nature.”
