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Top 15 Paul Harrison Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Harrison Quote: “We are conscious observers of the universe. Even if the universe as a whole possesses no consciousness, we do. In this sense we can be said to be a part of the consciousness of the universe, or of its self-consciousness.”

1. “We are conscious observers of the universe. Even if the universe as a whole possesses no consciousness, we do. In this sense we can be said to be a part of the consciousness of the universe, or of its self-consciousness.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “Pantheism believes that all things are linked in a profound unity. All things have a common origin and a common destiny. All things are interconnected and interdependent. In life and in death we humans are an inseparable part of this unity, and in realizing this we can find our joy and our peace.”

2. “Pantheism believes that all things are linked in a profound unity. All things have a common origin and a common destiny. All things are interconnected and interdependent. In life and in death we humans are an inseparable part of this unity, and in realizing this we can find our joy and our peace.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “Al Hallaj overreached himself when he said “I am the truth” – ie “I am God.” By this he meant, no doubt, that theologically God was in all of us and that he felt one with God: “You have manifested yourself so much that it seems to me that there is only You in me!” But the orthodox viewed statements like these as the deepest heresy. Al Hallaj was put on trial in Baghdad, and executed after horrific public tortures.”

3. “Al Hallaj overreached himself when he said “I am the truth” – ie “I am God.” By this he meant, no doubt, that theologically God was in all of us and that he felt one with God: “You have manifested yourself so much that it seems to me that there is only You in me!” But the orthodox viewed statements like these as the deepest heresy. Al Hallaj was put on trial in Baghdad, and executed after horrific public tortures.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “The Universe is our creator. We are made of star stuff. Our hydrogen and much of our helium emerged in the first few minutes after the big bang, the rest of our elements were forged by fusion inside stars, strewn across space in novae and supernovae, and transformed into heavier elements in successive star generations. Finally they were regathered in our solar system providing the elements that allowed life to evolve.”

4. “The Universe is our creator. We are made of star stuff. Our hydrogen and much of our helium emerged in the first few minutes after the big bang, the rest of our elements were forged by fusion inside stars, strewn across space in novae and supernovae, and transformed into heavier elements in successive star generations. Finally they were regathered in our solar system providing the elements that allowed life to evolve.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “True Pantheism has rarely been recorded in Christianity, for the very good reason that until the late seventeenth century it would have been punished as profound heresy. The few pantheists who did stick their necks out often paid for it with the burning of their books and often with excommunication and death.”

5. “True Pantheism has rarely been recorded in Christianity, for the very good reason that until the late seventeenth century it would have been punished as profound heresy. The few pantheists who did stick their necks out often paid for it with the burning of their books and often with excommunication and death.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “One of the most popular hypotheses of cosmic origins, the inflation theory of Allan Guth and Andrei Linde, predicts that our local universe is just one of a foam of universes bubbling into existence from a dense energy field. The totality of all these universes, the greater Universe, or Multiverse, or Omniverse, would in fact be truly infinite and eternal.”

6. “One of the most popular hypotheses of cosmic origins, the inflation theory of Allan Guth and Andrei Linde, predicts that our local universe is just one of a foam of universes bubbling into existence from a dense energy field. The totality of all these universes, the greater Universe, or Multiverse, or Omniverse, would in fact be truly infinite and eternal.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “The pantheist “God” is the community of all beings. It is not a He, or a She, or an It. It is a “We,” and a we in the broadest and most inclusive sense, embracing everything from rocks and algae, through butterflies and humans, to suns and planets.”

7. “The pantheist “God” is the community of all beings. It is not a He, or a She, or an It. It is a “We,” and a we in the broadest and most inclusive sense, embracing everything from rocks and algae, through butterflies and humans, to suns and planets.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “But many atheists have been uncomfortable with the purely negative. Many have had a profoundly spiritual or religious awe and humility towards nature and the Universe. As Carl Sagan wrote in Pale Blue Dot: “A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.”

8. “But many atheists have been uncomfortable with the purely negative. Many have had a profoundly spiritual or religious awe and humility towards nature and the Universe. As Carl Sagan wrote in Pale Blue Dot: “A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “Again and again pantheists have arisen from within all three religions, sometimes disguising their views carefully enough to avoid persecution – sometimes being condemned as heretics.”

9. “Again and again pantheists have arisen from within all three religions, sometimes disguising their views carefully enough to avoid persecution – sometimes being condemned as heretics.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “For pantheists, evolution is a universal force that works even on nonliving things. From the very first instant of our universe, every individual thing has existed in the midst of other things, and has had to adapt to the community of beings in which it finds itself. Evolution is at work even in the realms of mind and of society. Ideas, scientific theories, technologies and products are tested against each other and the most effective survive.”

10. “For pantheists, evolution is a universal force that works even on nonliving things. From the very first instant of our universe, every individual thing has existed in the midst of other things, and has had to adapt to the community of beings in which it finds itself. Evolution is at work even in the realms of mind and of society. Ideas, scientific theories, technologies and products are tested against each other and the most effective survive.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “The day before yesterday we were atoms in the heart of a burning star – yesterday we were dust in a collapsing proto-star – today we are living humans – tomorrow we may be soil, beetles, grass, trees, birds.”

11. “The day before yesterday we were atoms in the heart of a burning star – yesterday we were dust in a collapsing proto-star – today we are living humans – tomorrow we may be soil, beetles, grass, trees, birds.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “Heraclitus mocked conventional religious belief, and held that the cosmos was its own maker and creator: “The Cosmos was not made by gods nor men, but always was, and is, and ever shall be, ever living fire, igniting in measures and extinguishing in measures.”

12. “Heraclitus mocked conventional religious belief, and held that the cosmos was its own maker and creator: “The Cosmos was not made by gods nor men, but always was, and is, and ever shall be, ever living fire, igniting in measures and extinguishing in measures.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “Toland was the first modern pantheist to combine a religious reverence for the Universe, with respect for science, and a belief that everything is made of matter. A pantheist, he wrote to the German philosopher Leibniz, was one of those persons “who believe in no other eternal being but the universe.” When asked for a brief statement of his credo, Toland replied, “The sun is my father, the earth my mother, the world is my country and all men are my family.”

13. “Toland was the first modern pantheist to combine a religious reverence for the Universe, with respect for science, and a belief that everything is made of matter. A pantheist, he wrote to the German philosopher Leibniz, was one of those persons “who believe in no other eternal being but the universe.” When asked for a brief statement of his credo, Toland replied, “The sun is my father, the earth my mother, the world is my country and all men are my family.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “Think of some part of nature that you love – a particular forest, say. Do you expect the forest to love you back? Does it worry you that the forest cannot love you back? Does it make you love the forest any the less?”

14. “Think of some part of nature that you love – a particular forest, say. Do you expect the forest to love you back? Does it worry you that the forest cannot love you back? Does it make you love the forest any the less?”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “And if the universe is tuned so that consciousness can emerge and evolve, this implies that intelligent life has probably emerged on countless billions of other planets – so humans would have no special status in the design.”

15. “And if the universe is tuned so that consciousness can emerge and evolve, this implies that intelligent life has probably emerged on countless billions of other planets – so humans would have no special status in the design.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “Pantheism is atheistic towards the gods of all traditional religions. It does not believe in any separate creator, or in a personal judging God. Many pantheists of a physicalist bent agree with atheists that all phenomena are a part of nature. They do not believe there are any supernatural beings or spirit realms, and that if any currently unexplained phenomena such as extra-sensory perception should eventually be established as real, they will operate through natural physical forces.”

16. “Pantheism is atheistic towards the gods of all traditional religions. It does not believe in any separate creator, or in a personal judging God. Many pantheists of a physicalist bent agree with atheists that all phenomena are a part of nature. They do not believe there are any supernatural beings or spirit realms, and that if any currently unexplained phenomena such as extra-sensory perception should eventually be established as real, they will operate through natural physical forces.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “All things were interconnected with a sacred bond. Nature was in a process of constant change, using the universal substance to mould now a horse, then when the horse dies a tree, then a man. It was crucial, Marcus believed, for us to realize that we were part of the universe and to be in harmony with it:.”

17. “All things were interconnected with a sacred bond. Nature was in a process of constant change, using the universal substance to mould now a horse, then when the horse dies a tree, then a man. It was crucial, Marcus believed, for us to realize that we were part of the universe and to be in harmony with it:.”

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Paul Harrison Quote: “The Tao te Ching never speaks of a transcendent God or God. Its central focus is the Tao or Way, conceived of as a mysterious and numinous unity, infinite and eternal, underlying all things and sustaining them. But there is a profound religious reverence and respect for the Tao, and an acceptance of the need for human submission to the Tao. In this sense the Tao is discussed much in the same spirit as Pantheism discusses the awesomeness of the Universe.”

18. “The Tao te Ching never speaks of a transcendent God or God. Its central focus is the Tao or Way, conceived of as a mysterious and numinous unity, infinite and eternal, underlying all things and sustaining them. But there is a profound religious reverence and respect for the Tao, and an acceptance of the need for human submission to the Tao. In this sense the Tao is discussed much in the same spirit as Pantheism discusses the awesomeness of the Universe.”

— Paul Harrison

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