3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
461 | God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere [Empedocles] |
466 | God is pure mind permeating the universe [Empedocles] |
13783 | Even the gods love play [Plato] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
622 | There must a source of movement which is eternal, indivisible and without magnitude [Aristotle] |
5119 | The source of all movement must be indivisible and have no magnitude [Aristotle] |
2836 | God is not blessed and happy because of external goods, but because of his own nature [Aristotle] |
2637 | For Epicureans gods are made of atoms, and are not eternal [Epicurus, by Cicero] |
7815 | Early Stoics called the logos 'god', meaning not a being, but the principle of the universe [Stoic school] |
23341 | God created humans as spectators and interpreters of God's works [Epictetus] |
22730 | All men agree that God is blessed, imperishable, happy and good [Sext.Empiricus] |
22739 | God must suffer to understand suffering [Sext.Empiricus] |
1891 | How can we agree on the concept of God, unless we agree on his substance or form or place? [Sext.Empiricus] |
18460 | God is nowhere, and hence everywhere [Porphyry] |
6811 | Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed] |
20696 | We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides] |
22123 | The concept of God is the unique first efficient cause, final cause, and most eminent being [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
2269 | God the creator is an intelligent, infinite, powerful substance [Descartes] |
2289 | Nothing apart from God could have essential existence, and such a being must be unique and eternal [Descartes] |
7571 | Spinoza's God is not a person [Spinoza, by Jolley] |
12928 | Spinoza's God is just power and necessity, without perfection or wisdom [Leibniz on Spinoza] |
4314 | God is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone [Spinoza, by Cottingham] |
7609 | God is the sum and principle of all eternal laws [Spinoza, by Armstrong,K] |
17172 | God is a substance with infinite attributes [Spinoza] |
4823 | God does not act according to the freedom of the will [Spinoza] |
21859 | God has no purpose, because God lacks nothing [Spinoza] |
19435 | God is not loveable for producing without choice and by necessity; God is loveable for his goodness [Leibniz on Spinoza] |
17231 | God feels no emotions, of joy or sorrow [Spinoza] |
12954 | God's essence is the source of possibilities, and his will the source of existents [Leibniz] |
19326 | God must be intelligible, to select the actual world from the possibilities [Leibniz] |
19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |
7666 | God is not a mathematician, but a poet [Hamann, by Berlin] |
15618 | If God is the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God is a mere Beyond, and unknowable [Hegel] |
15635 | The older conception of God was emptied of human features, to make it worthy of the Infinite [Hegel] |
21980 | God is the absolute thing, and also the absolute person [Hegel] |
7586 | God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal [Kierkegaard] |
13465 | Only God is absolutely infinite [Cantor, by Hart,WD] |
7192 | Remove goodness and wisdom from our concept of God. Being the highest power is enough! [Nietzsche] |
18292 | I can only believe in a God who can dance [Nietzsche] |
22879 | 'God' is an imaginative unity of ideal values [Dewey] |